IMEC has successfully demonstrated the full wafer-scale fabrication of nanopores using ASML’s state-of-the-art extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines. Described by ASML’s Product Communications Manager as an “unexpectedly awesome biomedical application” of his firm's machinery, this could be an important advance due to the molecular sensing possibilities nanopores open up.
The qualities of nanopores are of great interest in biomedicine. As you might have determined from the etymology, nanopores are essentially tiny holes, just a few nanometers wide. In more relatable language, perhaps, these pores have diameters that make them roughly 10,000 times finer than a human hair.
