Sibling has a good comment about silicon. Another reason you're printing something like 100B transistors. So that's at least 100B raster steps. It would just take too long.
replyThe closest thing there is is e-beam lithography. It isn't really practical.
replyIsnt that smaller? I was under the impression e-beam is one of the (possible) next generation chip technologies.
replyGetting it to scale is the issue
AFAIK you can't really print crystalline silicon so they have to start with a wafer and dope/etch into it to form transistors.
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