World’s Smallest Book Created Using Nanotechnology
15 April 2007The world’s smallest book has just been created, thanks to Nanotechnology. Early history of Nanotechnology development was marked by experiments in tiny writing, like inscribing the first page of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities on the head of pin using an electron beam microscope. But now, an entire book has been produced, on April 9, 2007 by Robert Chaplin at the Nano Imaging Facility of Simon Fraser University. The book is entitled ‘Teeny Ted from Turnip Town,’ a modern day fable. Presently, the book’s size is .07 mm x .10 mm, and you’ll need an electron microscope to read it.
The technique used to write the book at this amazingly small level of detail is a technological marvel in itself. It is divided into 30 micro tablets each of which is carved onto crystalline silicon. Each tablet is 11 x 15 microns square. The block letters that are used to inscribe the writing have a resolution of 40 nanometers. An electron beam creates the letters by shaping space around each letter of the book.
Simon Fraser University publisher Robert Chaplin and SFU scientists Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh collaborated in the production of the miniature marvel of Nanotechnology. The book even has its own ISBN number, and the SFU is making available 100 signature edition copies from its lab.
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