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Chris Moon, Hari Manoharan (center), and Laila Mattos are three researchers who worked on the subatomic writing project
STANFORD (US)—How tiny is the world’s smallest writing? The letters in the words written by Standford University researchers are assembled from subatomic-sized bits as small as 0.3 nanometers—or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.
“We miniaturized their size so drastically that we ended up with the smallest writing in history,” says Hari Manoharan, assistant professor of physics.
Stanford reclaimed bragging rights for creating the world’s smallest writing, a distinction the university first gained in 1985 and lost in 1990. The researchers encoded the letters “S” and “U” (as in Stanford University) within the interference patterns formed by quantum electron waves on the surface of a sliver of copper. The wave patterns even project a tiny hologram of the data, which can be viewed with a powerful microscope. Continue…
