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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

IBM Research Makes World’s Smallest Movie By Moving Atoms

Please note this post was not created by Jay Clapp Photography but by Jaron Schneider


This is the kind of story that just boggles my mind. IBM just released a Guinness World Record-setting movie called “A Boy and His Atom,” made by moving atoms using an IBM-invented scanning tunneling microscope. It weighs two tons, operates at a temperature of negative 268 degrees Celsius and magnifies the atomic surface over 100 million times. IBM researchers used the microscope to control a super-sharp needle along a copper surface to “feel” atoms. [more]





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