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PRODUCTION ENGINEERING - DATA STORAGE: Drive for size.

Publication: The Engineer
Publication Date: 15-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Combination of lithography and block copolymers could lead to efficient production of higher-capacity chip memory. Siobhan Wagner reports

A new manufacturing technique could overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, and pave the way for smaller electronic devices and higher- capacity hard drives.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have developed a technology that combines lithography techniques traditionally used to print, or pattern, microelectronic circuits with self-assembling materials called block copolymers. These consist of...

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