Moving Atoms
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Moving Atoms - overview
Physics Accomplishment | 1990
IBM researcher: Don Eigler
Where the work was done: IBM Almaden Research Center
What we accomplished: In the 1980s, IBM Research used a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface. In 1989, researchers spelled out the letters "IBM" with 35 xenon atoms. This feat has been identified as one of the starting moments of nanotechnology because of the access it gave scientists to atoms. (Don Eigler, pictured.)
Related links: 20 Years of Moving Atoms, One by One (Wired); How to Move and Atom (IBM Research Blog); Don Eigler: Moving Atoms, One-By-One (TEDx Caltech)
Image credit: Engineering and Technology History Wiki