Another Breakthrough: Building circuits underwater - 10x smaller
 

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?This is the same process that you see when you look at something underwater, and everything looks shifted and different,? Smith said. ?We use that same property to make smaller microchips.?

?Major companies basically told us ?Good luck. Work on it. Maybe we?ll hire some of your students if the tests work,?? Smith said. Eighteen months later, Smith?s team used the new method to make circuits 10 times smaller than the best methods currently available, with individual lines 1/2000th the width of a human hair.


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