NANOscale pics

WillyP · Post by **WillyP** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:38 pm

Wings · Post by **Wings** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:22 pm

That's very cool.

mistercool2 · Post by **mistercool2** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:21 am

Don't ya just love technology! The 2nd image reminds me of something I saw on TV where this old guy built some kind of nanorobots. I think it was The Outer Limits. Looks like we're starting to catch up with what used to be science fiction.

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:07 am

stuff like the pic of 12 individual atoms is what impresses me most about this stuff.

Havn't they recently discovered a new way of lensing light, so that it can focus on things smaller than it's wavelength - ie: all the way down to the nanometer scale? i recall reading about it in http://nextbigfuture.com/ a month ago or so - they were primarily excited about it because it would extend the usefulness of photo-lithography (how we make computer chips). But i wonder if they could make a microscope using it.

(i really don't understand how it's possible to focus lower than the frequency length, but there you go!)