IBM researchers in Switzerland said they’ve come up with a patterning technique that lets them create structures as small as 15 nanometers. One nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter. In comparison, a human hair is between .03 and .25 mm thick. Using the nanopatterning technique, the researchers have created a three-dimensional replica of the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps, that’s 25 nanometers high — a scale of 1:5 billion. They have also created a 3-D replica of the world that measures 22 by 11 micrometers. That works out to a scale of about 1:11 billion.
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IBM's Nanoscale World Map Could Guide Chip Development
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 23, 2010 11:55 AMIBM researchers in Switzerland said they’ve come up with a patterning technique that lets them create structures as small as 15 nanometers. One nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter. In comparison, a human hair is between .03 and .25 mm thick. Using the nanopatterning technique, the researchers have created a three-dimensional replica of the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps, that’s 25 nanometers high — a scale of 1:5 billion. They have also created a 3-D replica of the world that measures 22 by 11 micrometers. That works out to a scale of about 1:11 billion.