Researchers for technology giant IBM have taken
film-making to a new level by using individual carbon atoms to make
a short film.
Being able to move single atoms is
an impoartant part of IBM's research into 'atomic-scale
memory' which may lead to computers that are able to store huge
amounts of data. In 2012, IBM scientists announced the creation of
the world's smallest magnetic memory bit, made of just 12 atoms,
compared to the 1,000,000 or so atoms used for the same job
today.
But all work and no play makes for
a dull nanophysicist, so the scientists moved atoms by using their
scanning tunneling microscope to make … a movie! It has now been
verified by Guinness World Records™ as The World's Smallest
Stop-Motion Film.
Watch the movie below, then
visit IBM's Research Site
to find out more.