Taking nanotechnology to market: Applying semiconductor manufacturing to nanotechnology?

摘要

Ask a room full of people to define nanotechnology, and you'll likely get a range of definitions. It's not because nanotechnology is indefinable. The dictionary says it's any fabrication technology in which objects are designed and built by the specification and placement of individual atoms or molecules, or where at least one dimension is on a scale of nanometers. You will get divergent answers, however, because nanotechnology promises to bring so many new developments to many aspects of life - from faster, smaller electronics and the diagnosis of disease right down to the very fibers that make up the fabrics in our clothes.