[extropy-chat] Re: garage nanotech

[Jef Allbright]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bradbury" <bradbury at blarg.net>
>
> It may be useful for Dan to point out to his daughter that if someone
> does
> pull off tool tip replacement and alternative assembly chemistries for
> STMs
> that they are probably on the short list for a Nobel Prize (and probably
>

Veeco / Digital Instruments has had automated tip replacement for a number
of years now on fully automated AFMs used by all of the top ten
semiconductor manufacturers and many more. A different tip type, or a
replacement for a damaged tip, is automatically selected from a cassette,
aligned, tuned and put into operation.

See the Veeco web site for more:  (Sorry for the long URLs.)

http://www.veeco.com/html/product_bymarket_family.asp?exclude=190,32&familyID=2&familyID=18&familyID=56&familyID=1&familyID=81&familyID=82&title=AUTO+AFM%2FAFP

You might also be interested in the NanoManipulator:

http://www.veeco.com/html/product_bymarket_proddetail.asp?productID=191&MarketID=4&Title=AFM%2FSPMs

- Jef