Nano Guitar is the World’s
Smallest Guitar
The world's
smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long--
about the size of single human cells. While
the strings as long as 50 nanometers,
or 100 atom wide.
Created by researchers at Cornell
University, U.S. from crystalline silicon,it
demonstrates a new generation of musical
instruments in the world. However, this
tool can only be played with special
microscopic equipment and his
tone was not likely to be
heard by ordinaryears.
A scanning electron microscope photo of the nano
guitar
The Cornell Nanofabrication
Facility (CNF) at Cornell University, is
partially supported by the National Science
Foundation. It is part of the National
Nanofabrication Users Network, a
partnership of nanotechnology centers
across the nation. In addition, this research
was funded partially by the U.S.
Department of Defense and the
Department of Education.
The key to the technology is
electron-beam (or E-beam) lithography. E-
beam lithography is a technique for
creating extremely fine patterns (much
smaller than can be seen by the naked eye)
required by the modern electronics
industry for integrated circuits. Derived
from the early scanning-electron
microscopes, the technique consists of
scanning a beam of electrons across a
surface covered with a thin film, called a
resist. The electrons produce a chemical
change in this resist, which allows the
surface to be patterned.
Using high-voltage electron
beam lithography at the Cornell
Nanofabrication Facility, one of only two
similar machines in this country, the
structures were sculpted out of single
crystal silicon on oxide substrates. A resist
is used to pattern the top silicon layer. The
oxide that is underneath this layer can be
selectively removed using a wet chemichal
etc.The result is free-standing structures in
silicon crystal.
Source from : translate.google.com and
http://www.musicgadgets.net/2006/09/19/nanoguitar
-the-smallest-guitar-in-the-world.
Aanning electron microscope photo of the nano
guitar
Using high-voltage electron beam lithography
at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, one of
only two similar machines in this country, the
structures were sculpted out of single crystal
silicon on oxide substrates. A resist is used to
pattern the top silicon layer. The oxide that is
under