From: Harvey Newstrom (newstrom@newstaffinc.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 13:10:31 MST
Spike Jones <spike.jones@lmco.com> wrote:
>
> > a nanotech timeline.
> >
> > What should I put in there?
Anders Sandburg replied:
> Maybe the invention of the STM, and the famous IBM-logo of xenon
> atoms. The first re-engineering of a bacterial protein to do something
> useful. The first self-replicating chemical.
>
> I don't have the years for those, though.
See the reference dates for IBM's work with the Scanning Tunneling
Microscope at <http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/library.html#ref2>.
1990: Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope.
35 Xenon atoms spell IBM.
1993: Confinement of electrons to quantum corrals on a metal surface.
Imaging standing waves in a two-dimensional electron gas.
Take a look at <http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html> for more
information. This is IBM's nanotech gallery. They discuss the science and
art of creating things one atom at a time.
-- Harvey Newstrom <mailto://newstrom@newstaffinc.com> <http://newstaffinc.com> Author, Consultant, Engineer, Legal Hacker, Researcher, Scientist.
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