Patent ID: 7223611

Claim:
A method of fabricating nanometer-thickness wires, comprising: providing a working surface of a superlattice having alternating layers of a first conductive material and one or more other materials, the working surface comprising exposed edges of the alternating layers, the exposed edges having a thickness and a length; treating the working surface to cause the exposed edges of the other materials to be non-conductive; and exposing the working surface to ions of a second conductive material and electrochemically depositing the ions on or near the exposed edges of the first conductive material layers to create wires made of the second conductive material, charged molecules or charged nano-objects and electro-phoretically depositing the charged molecules or charged nano-objects on or near the exposed edges of the first conductive material layers to ornate wires made of the molecules or nano-objects, and/or a bath of water having a dissolved chemical and inducing a chemical reaction between the dissolved chemical and water to induce electrolytically depositing a reaction product of the reaction on or near the exposed edges of the first conductive material layers to create wires made of the reaction product.