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"Sam Wormley" |
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10 Sep 2004 11:42:15 PM |
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Tiny writing heats up |
Tiny writing heats up (Sep 10)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/9/7
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Naval
Research Laboratory, both in the US, have used a heated atomic force
microscope (AFM) cantilever tip to deposit molecules of a solid ink onto
a surface. The technique, dubbed thermal dip-pen nanolithography (tDPN),
has the advantage of being able to control the ink flow (P E Sheehan et
al. 2004 Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 1589).
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| User: "The Ghost In The Machine" |
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| Title: Re: Tiny writing heats up |
12 Sep 2004 06:58:22 PM |
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In sci.physics, Sam Wormley
<swormley1@mchsi.com>
wrote
on Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:42:15 GMT
<Gmv0d.167159$Fg5.47383@attbi_s53>:
Tiny writing heats up (Sep 10)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/9/7
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Naval
Research Laboratory, both in the US, have used a heated atomic force
microscope (AFM) cantilever tip to deposit molecules of a solid ink onto
a surface. The technique, dubbed thermal dip-pen nanolithography (tDPN),
has the advantage of being able to control the ink flow (P E Sheehan et
al. 2004 Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 1589).
OK, I gotta ask.
How many nanocharacters would an Average Joe be able to read on
the head of a pin?
And then I have to ask why he'd want to be able to read said characters.
I could see this being of some use for various microelectronic disciplines,
if one uses the right "ink" (molten aluminum or copper), though.
--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.
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