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To: FJB who wrote (24860)	5/1/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: ScotMcI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25960

Robert - what is considered to be the physical limit for a conductor in terms of the width you can get to before you run out of enough molecules to conduct electrons? Is there a consensus in the industry as to how soon we'll likely hit that limit? Random ruminations: I've been wondering what will happen once we've hit the physical limits of line widths. I was thinking we'd probably start 'growing' our circuits in the third dimension by somehow accreting layers one on top of the other. In which case, I was wondering if lithography (optical or otherwise) might still be used on each layer. If Cymer's products were still involved at this stage, that would extend the demand for increasing amounts of them as far as the eye can see.