Moving Atoms. Watching researchers move atoms can be an unsettling yet wonderful experience: It’s hard to conceive that humans can manipulate things so small that they can barely be called ...

For 22 h over Nov. 9 and 10, 1989, Donald M. Eigler and Erhard K. Schweizer used the ultrasharp tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to pick up 35 xenon atoms and spell IBM in 5 nm tall ...

If I choose my frequency carefully, moving atoms will absorb light while stationary atoms will not. On absorbing the light, the atom gets a small kick, slowing its motion along the direction of ...

The capability to move atoms around freely might provide an answer to this problem. But there might be other applications, too. Humans might design and build new molecules never before seen in ...

Seeing Nanoscapes A family of tools for seeing and manipulating atoms and molecules is moving out of the lab and onto the factory floor. By Ivan Amato. June 14, 2004 ...

Physicists describe how they manipulated atoms in an unusual state of matter wherein they act much more like a single, wave-like structure than a group of individual particles.

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware ...

IBM researchers released a movie made with atoms%2C the smallest stop-action film ever seen %22A Boy And His Atom%22 tells the tale of a boy and his pet oxygen atom The effort updates the firm%27s ...

According to the researchers, this strong “electromigration force” could be used to intentionally move atoms around in nanoelectronic components – something that might help in self-assembling ...

The research behind this project could someday enable every movie ever made to be stored on a mobile device, says an IBM scientist. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor IBM researchers have created A ...

In a solid, the atoms are very attracted to one another. The atoms vibrate but stay in fixed positions because of their strong attractions for one another. Heating a solid increases the motion of the ...