-------- In message <480971424.644410.1517715556...@webmail.xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:
>It has been used to machine/polish crystal quartz waveplates and >to machine/polish the surface of silicon wafers before uses for >MEMS fabrication. Its even been used to carve channels in silicon >wafers in such applications. The images on this page gives a good impression about the current skill-level in that area: https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2740 I'm pretty sure that it is not the machine control but rather the metrology that would be the challenge. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.