"Nanobridges" and "nanocolonnades" for mass production

Roland Piquepaille writes "Even if researchers are routinely building all kinds of nanodevices in their labs, the current production process of nanowires or nanosensors is similar to the car manufacturing process before Henry Ford. These nanostructures are almost handmade. Now, researchers at University of California Davis (UC Davis) have adapted a technology developed for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. And they came with two new ways to massively produce nanowires of precise length. Their 'nanobridges' and 'nanocolonnades' are totally compatible with existing microelectronics fabrication processes. This opens the way for to a wide range of industrial-strength applications, such as bio-chemical sensing, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, memory and logic devices for future computing. [See also] other details and references." Ed. Note — Roland later added:
Their 'nanobridges' and 'nanocolonnades' are totally compatible with existing microelectronics fabrication processes. Please note that if these new processes are fully compatible with the ones used to day by chipmakers, which are using at best 65 nm processes, this means that there is a little bit of hype in the UC Davis news report. Anyway, this might open the way for to a wide range of industrial-strength applications, such as bio-chemical sensing, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, memory and logic devices for future computing.