Smallest Swiss cross: Made of 20 single atoms

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Smallest Swiss cross: Made of 20 single atoms
« on: July 17, 2014, 01:08:26 PM »
The manipulation of atoms has reached a new level: Physicists were able to place 20 single atoms

on a fully insulated surface at room temperature to form the smallest “Swiss cross”, thus taking a big step towards next generation atomic-scale storage devices.


Source:
Universität Basel [internet]