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A very small mechanical device; Tiny motors fabricated along with integrated circuit "brains" on individual silicon chips

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  • Any bigger, and maybe you have to call it a micromachine, right?
  • Movies of a micromachine pinball system, from the Solid State Electronics group at the Chalmers University Of Technology in Sweden.
  • The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic silicon track and pushes a silicon dioxide rotor.
  • The NRL team developed novel ways to laser-micromachine hole-arrays in a variety of semiconductors, including silicon (Si), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) and Indium Phosphide...
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