15,000 Beams of Light

 

15,000 Beams of Light
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:47:00 -0500

One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. Northwestern University researchers have done just that--drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL). BPL uses an array of pens made of a polymer to print patterns over large areas with nanoscopic through macroscopic resolution.

Full story at http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/08/pen-skylines-nanotechnology.html
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