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The cost of making chip components smaller using photolithographic printing might soon invalidate Moore's law. A new imprinting technique that can reproduce features as small as 10 nm could save it.

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Figure 1: A new recipe for silicon chips?

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Pease, R. Imprints offer Moore. Nature 417, 802–803 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417802a

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