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To: Thomas J Pittman who wrote (40712)	11/19/1997 11:17:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

J - Re: " "nanotransistor" Bell labs built one transistor - at least that is what the article described. A single MOS transistor is rather simple to produce - e-beam direct write photolithography can easily be used to define the structures with geometries (apparently) well below 0.05 microns. Bell Labs has been pushing this (electron-beam) for 25 years at least. Silicon, a thin gate oxide and polysilicon will suffice to make the transistor, and throw in a few contacts and metal for electrical connections. The trick is to do this 10 million times per chip and hook all those transistors together to perfrom something useful. Paul