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As technology progresses and Pocket PCs get more powerful, one of the items that determines just how small our little devices can get are microchip size. The smaller and lighter the chips, the smaller and lighter the PDA. An Infoworld article is pointing to a new microchip creation technique that makes the chips much smaller. The secret twist to ensure the tiny size is water! "Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are refining a method that uses the current generation of chip-making tools to produce smaller chips than previously thought possible with those tools. The key ingredient happens to be one of the most commonly available substances on the planet.
By running a small stream of water across a silicon wafer as the circuit lines are being etched into the chip, the current generation of lithography tools can produce circuits down to the 45 nanometer level due to the refractive properties of water, said Bruce Smith, professor of microelectronics engineering and associate dean for graduate studies at RIT, in Rochester, New York."
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