Nanoguitar

From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 12:45:46 MDT

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    Awaiting Nano-amplifiers, I guess...

    http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om22000.html

    Nano Guitar

      The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers
    long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each
    about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Made by Cornell University
    researchers from crystalline silicon, it demonstrates a new technology
    for a new generation of electromechanical devices.

    The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide,
    the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force
    microscope,
    for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies.
    The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size
    of a single human blood cell.

    A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. For comparison, the diameter
    of a human hair is about 200 micrometers, or 200,000 nanometers
    -- positively huge compared to these newest structures, where the
              
    guitar string is about 50 to 100 nanometers in diameter.

    -chris.
    http://crw.lucifer.com



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