Issues

Science and technology are advancing together, each contributing to the other to produce ever smaller and more sophisticated structures and to permit investigation of new classes of phenomena.

This interdisciplinary field now has a center where equipment, expertise and information are all available to university scientists who could not otherwise afford microstructure research.

With far‐ultraviolet and x‐ray lithography, optical projection systems and electron‐ and ion beam methods, one can produce solid‐state logic circuits at “biological” densities.

The ability to construct thousands of electronic devices connected into complex circuits on small silicon chips lets us make new kinds of “smart” instruments and is leading to a new industrial revolution.