Forecast for 2007: Nano Gets Big
Not long ago, nanometer-scale positioning was a laboratory curiosity. Today, the robust and responsive nanopositioning provided by piezoelectric actuation is more vital than ever in the lab and has become an essential commodity for industries ranging from semiconductor and disk-drive manufacturing to defense and the life sciences.
The semiconductor industry, for example, is animated by Moore’s law, which predicts a doubling of logic elements per unit area of silicon every 18 months. The...
Photonics Spectra, January 2007