Molecular Machine (Jacobson) Group MIT – January 2005 Avogadro Scale Engineering
Simple molecules <1nm IBM PowerPC 750 TM Microprocessor 7.56mm×8.799mm 6.35×10 6 transistors Semiconductor Nanocrystal ~1 nm m Circuit design Copper wiring width 0.1 m red blood cell ~5 m (SEM) DNA proteins nm bacteria 1 m Nanotube Transistor (Dekker) bits/cm 2 (1Tbit/cm 2 ) Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group SOI transistor width 0.12 m diatom 30 m
Fabricational Complexity F fab = ln (W) / [ a 3 fab E fab ] F fab = ln (M) -1 / [ a 3 fab E fab ] Total Complexity Complexity Per Unit Volume Complexity Per Unit Time*Energy Complexity Per unit Cost
Chip Fab Example CMOS Processor Fabrication Time: 3 Weeks 7x24 Processing Moore’s Law: 2X – 18 Months Can We Use The Complexity Metric To Do Better?
DVD6 Disk Replication 3 second replication time. ~ 3 cents per disk 18.8 GB Data Pit Size: 0.25 um
All-Printed All-Inorganic Transistors Solution Based Inorganic Semiconductor Chemistry Ridley et al., Science, 286, 746 (1999) Science 297,416 (2000) Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group - MIT NanoTectonics
All Printed-All Inorganic 3D nm Building Blocks – Seconds Per Layer Ridley et. Al, Science, 286, 746 (1999) Bulthaup et. Al. APL 79(10): 1525 (2001) Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group Embossed Chips 200 nm
Bulthaup et. Al. APL 79(10): 1525 (2001) Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group Multilayer Liquid Assembly All Printed-All Inorganic Logic Elements Department of Mechanical Engineering NANOTECTONICS
20 m Liquid Embossed MEMS Department of Mechanical Engineering Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group Eric Wilhelm, PhD Mech E.
What Does The Future Look Like? Parts List Motors Sensors Inorganic Electronic Structure RF Biology Logic
Gene Level Error Removal
1.Air inlets 2.Crushers 3.Ganglion 4.Multiple Visual sensors 5.Muscles 6.Pincers 7.Sensory receptors 8.Stridulatory pegs 9.Wings Molecular Machines Group-MIT Faculty Joseph Jacobson Research Scientists and Post Docs Peter Carr (Whitehead) Kie-Moon Sung Graduate Students Brian Chow Saul Griffith David Kong David Mosley (Chemistry) Chris Emig