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Silicon-based gunpowder may propel MEMS devices

Posted: 24 Jan 2002  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: nanoscale  microelectromechanical systems  mems  silicon wafer 

[Summary of tips] The accidental discovery of a silicon form of "gunpowder" is pointing the way toward integrating nanoscale explosives onto silicon chips, a technology that might provide microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) with a means for rocket propulsion.Chemists at the University of California, San Diego, had a chip blow up in their faces......
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