A guitar only an amoeba could love.Forget acoustic versus electric: Now, guitarists can add microscopic to their options. Scientists at Cornell University's nanofabrication nan·o·fab·ri·ca·tion n. Any technique used to create objects or mechanisms on the scale of nanotechnology. facility have carved a tiny, six-stringed guitar out of silicon. The guitar was made just for fun to demonstrate a new technology for fabricating microelectromechanical devices (SN: 7/26/97, p. 62). Anyone attempting to play "Stairway stairway or staircase Series or flight of steps that provides a means of moving from one level to another. The earliest stairways seem to have been built with walls on both sides, as in Egyptian pylons dating from the 2nd millennium BC. to Heaven" on the instrument would have to pluck pluck 1. an abattoir term for the thoracic viscera plus the liver, after separation from the esophagus and the diaphragm. Includes the larynx, trachea, lungs, heart and liver, plus the spleen in sheep. 2. the strings--each about 100 atoms wide--with the tip of an atomic force microscope atomic force microscope (AFM), device that uses a spring-mounted probe to image individual atoms on the surface of a material. Unlike the scanning tunneling microscope, which is also a scanning probe microscope, the AFM can be used on materials that do not conduct . |
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