Posted By: Mickey_MeatBalls_DeMonica
Worlds Smallest Guitar... - 01/20/12 08:50 PM
...is literally microscopic.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html
TAKEN FROM ARTICLE:
...(the guitar) has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.
The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force microscope, for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html
TAKEN FROM ARTICLE:
...(the guitar) has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.
The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force microscope, for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell.
Seriously though, its from 1997, so I wouldnt be at all surprised if they've gone further. Apparantly there's a whole range of microscopic instruments made, just... well just to be there I guess.