IBM researchers can now look into what’s happening in individual atoms in close to real time, according to a paper published Friday in Science. “We’re interested in what happens at the very end of semiconductor and the IT industries,” Andreas Heinrich, one of the IBM researchers involved in the project, told TechNewsWorld. “At that point, you’re looking at single atoms, and we wanted to explore what happens at that scale.” To do that, the researchers used IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope to take 100,000 snapshots of an atom within less than one second.
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IBM's Atomic Speed Gauge Could Mean Big Things for IT
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 24, 2010 12:18 PMIBM researchers can now look into what’s happening in individual atoms in close to real time, according to a paper published Friday in Science. “We’re interested in what happens at the very end of semiconductor and the IT industries,” Andreas Heinrich, one of the IBM researchers involved in the project, told TechNewsWorld. “At that point, you’re looking at single atoms, and we wanted to explore what happens at that scale.” To do that, the researchers used IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope to take 100,000 snapshots of an atom within less than one second.