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