Nicholas Carey
08-10-2006, 08:30 PM
From the Physics News Graphics (http://www.aip.org/png/) section of the website of the American Institute of Physics (http://www.aip.org/) comes this picture of the sharpest manmade thing (http://www.aip.org/png/2006/264.htm):
A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second).
http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/images/wolkow.jpg
A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second).
http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/images/wolkow.jpg