IBM Scientists Create World Soccer Sand Size
Globe map showing countries around the world in three-dimensional shapes are generally the size of a football, can be larger or slightly smaller. However, imagine a globe that only the size of a grain of sand.
It's not impossible for a scientist at IBM's research center managed to create it. Superkecil globe's size exactly 0.3 millimeters in diameter. To draw a world map on its surface, the etching technique (engraving) microscopic nanometer scale.
"Progress in nanotechnology is very closely related to the methods and tools to produce nanometer-sized shapes and create an object on the surface in a high quality," says physicist named Dr. Armin Knoll from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, launched the site HotHardware, Monday (26 / 4 / 2010).
Ukirnya tool only has a blade size of 500 nanometers, such as those used in electron microscopy. World of his own balls made of glass molecules. While the materials used to draw maps of various types of polymers called polyphtalalehyde, which is the material findings Hiroshi Ito IBM researchers in the 1980s. To produce a perfect globe about the size of sand grains that spent time 2 minutes 23 seconds.
It looks fun, but experiments conducted Knoll is very important in the development of technology. The same technique may someday be very useful in designing chips and research in the medical field until the optics.
It's not impossible for a scientist at IBM's research center managed to create it. Superkecil globe's size exactly 0.3 millimeters in diameter. To draw a world map on its surface, the etching technique (engraving) microscopic nanometer scale.
"Progress in nanotechnology is very closely related to the methods and tools to produce nanometer-sized shapes and create an object on the surface in a high quality," says physicist named Dr. Armin Knoll from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, launched the site HotHardware, Monday (26 / 4 / 2010).
Ukirnya tool only has a blade size of 500 nanometers, such as those used in electron microscopy. World of his own balls made of glass molecules. While the materials used to draw maps of various types of polymers called polyphtalalehyde, which is the material findings Hiroshi Ito IBM researchers in the 1980s. To produce a perfect globe about the size of sand grains that spent time 2 minutes 23 seconds.
It looks fun, but experiments conducted Knoll is very important in the development of technology. The same technique may someday be very useful in designing chips and research in the medical field until the optics.
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