NanoBits: grab a piece of the nano building kit

[covertoperations1000]

thats weeny weeny ,teenie tiny..........very clever too......

[blacklinen99]

Awesome work! Is the geometry at the end effector known? I know it's more useful than tips for narrow spaces, but do you think you could improve sensitivity -- And get closer to the ideal tip -- by growing, say, a well-known structure on the end effector, whose geometry you know and can simulate before the experiments? Has anybody tried doing that to solve the great unknown in scanning probe microscopy (The tip)?

[NanoClips]

@blacklinen99 i tell you, a lot of hard work is going into making all sorts of tips: magnetic tips, ultra sharp tips, hollow tips, waveguiding tips, dual tips... scanning probe microscopy is wonderfully diverse. We are right now trying to use Focused Ion Beam milling to make exactly customised tips. We will upload some videos soon that show how you can sculpt these tine structures in real time. With such small structures finding out what the tip shape exactly is can only be done by TEM...

[NanoClips]

@NanoClips sorry for not answering before, for some reasons the notifications (when someone asks something) are now guided to my junk folder... . )(#¤)#(/¤

[TheCarmacon]

simply amazing

[MrEdobob]

Jesus did that!!!

[LSDjTutorials]

Aha, FIB as glue!

[NanotechMovies]

With a really really good microscope its actually possible to use the grippers, but it is harder, and the smallest structures are very difficult if not impossible to resolve. There is another clip which shows manipulation of a 200 nm wire using a very good optical lens

[ryanrule2]

the graininess in the video? thats not grain, thats the actual electrons being used to image this stuff hitting the detector.

[unarmed1234]

what is the musc??

[gaeshue]

@unarmed1234

find "gaeshue" on Soundcloud and find the track "Trickery" (from album "Apart")

[DOitTOtheCROWD]

How small is all that gear? Is what I'm looking at so small I can't see them without electron microscopes?

[NanoClips]

Exactly! Very small spells, that is :)

[HerrXRDS]

This is sorcery

[NanoClips]

Yey, we have now a big european funded project to get this to work well. Much (!) more to come. ..

[DrFeelgood38]

Just thinking about the scale of this project is mind boggling. Definitely an interesting and fascinating invention!

Also, could I bother you for the name of the song?

[NanoClips]

thanks for the comment. I think actually we can do a lot more with this concept than we just shown here.... but well see later :)...

The song is "Trickery" by a fairly unknown danish band Gaeshue, and the singer is Tine Nordentoft Petersen, half improvising this first take.

[xantochroi]

fascinating stuff ,ii love nano technology soo much

thanks for this nice video

and keep up the good work

[NanoClips]

thanks!

Soon i will upload another movie, made by my friends in Oldenburg University - showing how the robotic assembly line system works --- so keep an eye on the site :)

[NanoClips]

There you go - its up now. A bit more techy than the other ones, at that.