Smallest calculator
- Who
- The molecular abacus
- What
- 0.000001 nanometre(s)
- When
- 01 January 0001
Smallest calculator
James Gimzewski (UK) and a team of scientists at IBM Research Division's Zurich research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, created a calculator with a diameter of less than one millionth of a millimetre. The molecular abacus consists of ten molecules of carbon 60, that can be moved along a microscopic groove on a copper surface with the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope.
James Gimzewski (UK) and a team of scientists at IBM Research Division's Zurich research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, created a calculator with a diameter of less than one millionth of a millimetre. The molecular abacus consists of ten molecules of carbon 60, that can be moved along a microscopic groove on a copper surface with the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope.