Design considerations for an assembler

Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 210-215

  Merkle, Ralph C ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MOLECULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES;

EID: 0030233754     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/7/3/008     Document Type: Article

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