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World's Smallest Guitar

 
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RonOnGuitar



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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 8:17 pm    Post subject: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

Anybody seen this before? --







ITHACA, N.Y. -- The world's smallest guitar -- carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell -- has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.



The "nanoguitar" -- made for fun to illustrate the technology -- is just one of several structures that Cornell researchers believe are the world's smallest silicon mechanical devices. Researchers made these devices at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, bringing microelectromechanical devices, or MEMS, to a new, even smaller scale -- the nano-sized world.



"We have a new technology for building the smallest mechanical devices," said Harold G. Craighead, Cornell professor of applied and engineering physics who has the directed the work performed by his doctoral student, Dustin W. Carr.



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 cell.



entire page at:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/July97/guitar.ltb.html




Edited by: RonOnGuitar at: 5/7/03 12:30:17 am
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PLX180



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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:14 pm    Post subject: Re: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

Don't ask me why, but I find that absolutely incredible :D



Completely useless I'm sure, but it just looks........



............stunning



sigh









ok, nothing to see here. Move along... ;)

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:55 pm    Post subject: Re: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

WOW! That's amazing! So who gets to play it???




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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:55 pm    Post subject: Re: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

Wow! Silent music :bmutant

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MIKE BURN
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2003 12:31 am    Post subject: Re: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

:laugh


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RonOnGuitar



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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2003 1:26 am    Post subject: Re: World's Smallest Guitar Reply with quote

<<So who gets to play it???>>



Musically gifted microbes?



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