Nanotechnology
Vipul Ved Prakash
vipul at best.com
Sat Jan 17 05:43:03 PST 1998
Anonymous wrote:
> I think people here seriously underestimate how long nanotech will take.
> Suppose you have a machine which takes atoms and deposits them onto a
> surface, building it up layer by layer. This is possible with today's
> technology, but it's a slow process.
Quantum Well Lasers are three atomic layers of gallium indium arsenide,
packed between ultra-thin layers of indium phosphide and used in all high
speed CDROM drives on the market.
The revolution is closer than you think!
Vipul
--
Powell lingered. "How's Earth?"
It was a conventional enough question and Muller gave the
conventional answer, "Still spinning."
-- "Reason", Asimov.
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