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Nano Scale Artworks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-thought-art-professors-graded-on-size dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "This article is a list of the best nano-scale artworks. It includes a 15 micron wide badger, a ten micron long guitar (which was actually played) and a 120 micron long New Scientist logo. Of course these are the images that got released to the press. In labs around the world people must have used their bleeding-edge technologies to make structures just to impress their friends. I wonder how many scientists' significant others have received nano-Valentines on Feb 14th?"

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  1. Back in 1985, I signed my chip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back in my VLSI class at the Univ. of Saskatchewan in 1985, our chip design team put each of our initials into the chip (I think it was a simple 10-bit adder) and although it may have seemed easy, we had to add them in such a way as to pass the various layout tests that the fab plant forced on the file. So we couldn't just add a Metal layer with "TDz" on it, it had to be drawn in such a way that all the various layout rules such as minimum distance and certain layers not crossing in certain ways had to be followed.

    TDz.