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MIT Develops Nanoruler

Posted by Hemos on from the just-a-little-somethig-on-the-side dept.

Makarand writes "MIT Researchers have developed a device to make the most precise rulers - the Nanoruler, whose "ticks" are mere nanometers apart. The Nanoruler can pattern gratings of lines and spaces more accurately than other methods across large surfaces more than 12 inches in diameter, a capability important to a number of applications like preparing larger wafers for the production of computer chips and higher-resolution space telescopes. The Nanoruler works by using interference lithography where two laser beams interfere with each other to produce interference "fringes", or parallel planes of high and low light intensity. These fringes are then recorded onto the surface as lines and spaces using the same techniques used for tracing circuits onto silicon."

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  1. Smallest Penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And with it, we can messure the worlds smallest penis. Cmdr Taco, where are you? I have something I want to messure.

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or is it?????

  3. useful! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    all in the name of measuring our friend Darl's little pecker i guess

  4. At last... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    At last, a penis measuring device for SUV drivers.

    1. Re:At last... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yeah, that actually has a different name altogether. It's called the clitoris. You might want to stop reading slashdot long enough to familiarize yourself with it. Time well spent.

  5. The untold part of this story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MIT researchers admitted that they were prompted to develop the nanoruler in an effort to measure the actual amount of SCO code found in the Linux kernel.

    "Hey, those math analyst guys who said there's code in them thar kernels are startin' to look like a bunch o' fools," said Poindexter Whittlesalot, head janitor in the lab where the nanoruler was developed. "We figgered we could rescue their reps and that of the whole darn MIT bunch by comin' up with a ruler that can actually measure the code."