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MicroElectroMechanical Systems in Review

Posted by michael on from the plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom dept.

jscribner writes: "Tis the season for tech forecasts and wrap-ups; I got to post this discussion on www.research.ibm.com; it's about how (merely 30 years after Feynman's speech) nanotechnology is finally being applied to chip and storage technologies. The IBM Research article covers RF (Radio Frequency) MEMS, micro-actuator MEMS, and the Millipede project. You can also find some interesting material on IDA's MEMS site and the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems."

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  1. Re:Feynman's speech by tsprad · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oops! Click the link first, dummy. December 29, 1959. 42 years.

  2. Feynman by jpostel · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have to say that Feynman gets so very little credit in this field. He did not really create the concept of nanotech but he layed out a good theoretical framework around which others based their research. The article is worth a read.

    I have several of his books and the collected physics lecture texts. I highly recommend them. I see them as setting a standard for physics texts to follow.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020150064 7

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