A computer with
circuitry so small that it can only be seen through a microscope. Nanocomputers can be electronic (where
nanolithography is used to create microscopic circuits), biochemical or organic (such as
DNA computers), or quantum (such as
quantum computers). Nanocomputers deal with materials at a molecular level and hold the promise of creating increasingly smaller and faster computers, an important concept in the realm of
pervasive computing.
