Micro magazine considers nanotech for semiconductor industry

The November/December issue of Micro Magazine, a trade for the semiconductor manufacturing community, has an article on nanotechnology ("When Micro Meets Nano: Small things considered", by John Conroy). Not surprisingly, the article focuses more on short-term possibilities for molecular-scale transistors, carbon nanotubes, and atomic layer deposition of interest to the microelectronics and semiconductor industry. It also presents some mildly pessimistic comments on the possibility for more advanced nanorobotics from Susan Sinnott, a researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Unviersity of Florida and co-chair of the Ninth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology in November 2001.