This document discusses the convergence of life and technology at the nanoscale. It provides a brief history of miniaturization from the first transistor in 1947 to modern smartphones. Photolithography, developed in the 19th century, is discussed as the technique used to etch circuitry onto surfaces and enabled the development of integrated circuits. The document also references Richard Feynman's 1959 talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" which envisioned manufacturing at the nanoscale. It proposes creating art and music through nanotechnology by making oscillators, circuits and sensors at the nanoscale.

1. NanoHacking: Converging Life and Tech at the Nanoscale
MAKE
Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller aka dusjagr
www.dusseiller.ch/labs
Biofilia & LUMA Centre at Aalto University, Helsinki

2. From Photography to iPhones
We are back in the stone age!

3. Never planned or foreseen...
ENIAC 1947
IPhone 5 ­ 2013

4. History
First transistor, 1947
Lithography
Photography
Integrated circuit, 1961

5. History of Photolithography
Lithography (v. old Greek.: λίθος lithos, „Stone“ and γράφειν graphein,
„write“)
1826 “Heliography” (Sun Writing) invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Light­sensitive bitumen on glass or metal plates

6. Photography

7. Photography
1826 Niépce makes a first copper etch of Cardinal d’Amboise
First application. Structure transfer via Camera Obscura,
illumination and etching
Resolution 0.5 – 1 mm !!!
1839 Daguerre, further development of Photography, Silver
coated copper plates, unique copies!
At the same time Talbot, Wedgwood and others work with
light­sensitive silver salts on paper and leather.
Photogenetic drawings, negativ­positive. Reproduction.
1855 Abel Niepce and Lemaître develop Heliagravures.
100 Years later first circuits are transferred into copper and
etched
1957 first planara Transistors
1958 first integrated circuits

8. New length scales in
microelectronics
Integrated circuit, 1961

9. Photolithography

10. Photolithography
Coated substrate
Basis material, conductive layer, photo­sensitive
layer
Through UV illumination and development →
structure
Etching of metallic layer
Removal of photo­senitive layer

11. Photolithography

12. There is Plenty of Room at the
Bottom
Richard Feynman, 1959

13. There is Plenty of Room at the
Bottom
Richard Feynman, 1959
As soon as I mention this, people
tell me about miniaturization, and
how far it has progressed today.
They tell me about electric motors that
are the size of the nail on your small
finger. And there is a device on the
market, they tell me, by which you can
write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a
pin. But that's nothing; that's the most
primitive, halting step in the direction I
intend to discuss. It is a staggeringly
small world that is below. In the year
2000, when they look back at this age,
they will wonder why it was not until the
year 1960 that anybody began seriously

14. New length scale in manufacturing
Device – Microsystems
integration
Microfabrication
Nanomanipulation

15. From Science Fiction to Nonsense
to
Real Nanotechnology

16. Making really really small stuff

17. NanoŠmano Sajica
Let's make some noise!

18. Vive la Resistance
on Oscillators, electronic Circuits and Resistors
or is it a Nano Sensor?

19. Vive la Resistance aka NanoŠmano Sajica
Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller aka dusjagr & Urs Gaudenz
Swiss Mechatronic Art Society

20. Lets start soldering!