The document discusses nanotechnology and miniaturization. It references Richard Feynman's 1959 challenge to write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the head of a pin by reducing the size of all the writing by 25,000 times. It then mentions Moore's law and how conventional semiconductor device feature sizes have shrunk from 0.35 micrometers for Intel processors to 0.25 micrometers for Texas Instruments chips. Finally, it notes that in 1974, Ratner and Aviram proposed that diodes and transistors could be fabricated using a single molecule, showing how properties are dependent on size at the atomic scale.

1. Del Laboratorio a la
Sociedad y el Mercado
Ernesto Julio Calvo
INQUIMAE. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires

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3. “Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of
Encyclopaedia Britannica on the head of a pin? A reduction
in size all the writing in the Encyclopaedia by 25,000 times.
Richard Feynman, Caltech, December 29th 1959
Then he said “there is plenty of room at the bottom” to fulfill
his challenge of writing the 24 volumes of the Britannica in
the head of a pin.
1 nanometre = 0,000001 mm

4. Ley de Moore
Conventional Devices
0.35µm, Intel Pro
0.25µm, TI
Transition Region
Quantum Devices
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Atomic Devices