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Nanomodular Electronics

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These nanomodular electronics could enable a "fab in a box" and make fabricating microelectronics as straightforward as printing this document. The process of using light and chemicals to construct microelectronics from a single piece of silicon has both enabled Moore’s Law and created many unfortunate downstream effects: industry consolidation in volatile parts of the world, fragile supply chains, high overhead for making custom circuits, and large barriers for innovating on the process because everything is so tightly coupled. Incremental improvements to the current system are possible, but won’t get around the fundamental limitations of the underlying process paradigm – the planar process. Even the transistors at the core of microelectronics are still shockingly expensive compared to other manufactured goods. At roughly $10 billion per kilogram, transistors cost thousands to millions of times more than even drugs,[1] which are created in bulk chemical processes that scale with volum

Nanomodular Electronics Model About Team Programs Library & Updates Get Involved Donate Model About Team Programs Library & Updates Get Involved Donate Back to library Back to top Author Michael Filler Ben Reinhardt Date Published 2023.02.15 Nanomodular Electronics Microelectronics made anywhere, anytime, by anyone Author(s) Michael Filler Ben Reinhardt Date Published 2023.02.15 Download a PDF version of this piece. Executive Summary It may be possible to reinvent how microelectronics are made using a two step process: Synthesizing modular, nanometer-scale components – transistors, sensors, an

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