J Storrs Hall 1999 Nanotechnology 10 323 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/10/3/316
J Storrs Hall
Show affiliationsTo achieve the levels of productivity that are one of the desirable prospects of a molecular manufacturing technology, the techniques of self-replication in mechanical systems are a major requirement. Although the basic ideas and high-level descriptions were introduced by von Neumann in the 1940s, no detailed design in a mechanically realistic regime (`the kinematic model') has been done. This paper formulates a body of systems analysis to that end, and proposes a higher-level architecture somewhat different to those yet seen, as a result.
89.20.Bb Industrial and technological research and development
Issue 3 (September 1999)
Received 22 January 1999, in final form 19 July 1999
J Storrs Hall 1999 Nanotechnology 10 323
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