PSW 2322 Atom by Atom Manufacturing Making Atomically Perfect Materials and Machines | John Randall

Friday, October 18, 2013
John N. Randall
President, Zyvex Labs

Technological progress is limited by manufacturing precision, a relationship first studied by Norio Taniguichi in the 1970s. Revolutionary inventions, even when made into working prototypes, have languished without realizing societal or economic benefits for long periods (hundreds of years) after their invention because manufacturing precision necessary to mass produce them was not available. A contemporary example of precision's limitation on technology is embodied in Moore's Law. The fundamental limitation on the growth of integrated circuit capacity is the precision with which circuit features can be reliably manufactured.

[michaellynn]

I met John at a recent APS conference. The work he and Zyvex Labs are doing is excellent and fascinating.

[lorriecarrel]

This is the future he's talking about, things will be done with 3d atomic printing that nobody would believe at this present time.