Nano Sculpting

Watch a focused beam of ions cut out jaws and shaping up a misformed nanogripper made out of silicon. The focused ion beam (FIB) instrument is located at the brand new Center for Nanoscopy at Technical University of Denmark.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nanotechnology
• nanostructures
• nanomanufacturing
• silicon
• focused
• ion
• beam
• microscopy

[djbro16]

can you modulate the intensity?

[NanoClips]

@djbro16 Yep - we can turn the stream of ions up or down, and also vary the speed. The ions are like small atomic bullets, so the more energy they have the harder they hit ---- but strangely, the faster they go (higher energy) the smaller is the chance of hitting something. The process is pretty complicated... for instance, one atom that is knocked out by an ion, may hit other ions and so it goes... in a kind of cascade way.

[Jenfucius]

I love the background music!

[NanoClips]

yep - its great. A wiz-kid friend of mine :)

[NanoClips]

Ah... "make contact" not "concert"... sorry for the typos.

[NanoClips]

It would help to go to university and study nanotechnology, physics, chemistry or something like that :), and then - as early as possible - make concert with a research group that does this sort of thing, and say your interested........but last week we had a 10th grade public school student to do nanomanipulation of graphene oxide for the first time in the world (we think).

[Meanroachman360]

See, this is the kind of stuff that makes me inspired to become a nano-engineer.

[gaeshue]

Yes, absolutely real!... the film is sped up though, the full process is like half an hour.

[15firekid]

is it real?

[goldmosaic]

freaky

[drewbud315]

absolutely amazing !