Bringing the Nanolaboratory Inside Electron Microscopes

AA NANOLABORATORY IS ONE OF THE SYSTEMS TO REALIZE VARIOUSnanoscale fabrications and assemblies to develop novel nanodevices to integrate borderlesstechnologies based on a nanorobotic manipulation system. We have presented the nanolabo-ratory inside electron microscopes including a transmission electron microscope (TEM),scanning electron microscope (SEM), and environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for three-dimen-sional (3-D) and real-time nanomanipulation, nanoinstrumentation, and nanoassembly. The following is a presentation of our current work of nanomanipulation and nanoassembly based on the hybrid nanorobotic manipulation inside a TEM and an SEM toward carbon nanotube (CNT) applications. Single cell stiffness measurement has been also presented based on the nanorobotic manipulation system inside an E-SEM. TOP DOWN, BOTTOM UP Nanotechnology has an important role in the combinations of the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The possibility to control the structure of matter, atom by atom, was first seriously discussed by Richard Feynman in 1959, in his lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, ” which is now labeled “Nanotechnology ” [1]. The wide scale controlled devices from atomic scale to meter scale are expected to be realized in the near future (Figure 1). Molecular nanoassembly is one of the most impressive nanotechnologies. E. Drexler proposes the machine-phase nanosystems based on self-replicative molecular assembler vi