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Title: Scientists Create 'World's Smallest Violin'

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/0121...

Physicists at Loughborough University have created what they believe is the
world's smallest violin, measuring just 35 microns long and 13 microns wide --
 smaller than the width of a human hair, which typically ranges from 17 to
180 microns in diameter. The microscopic instrument, created using the
university's new nanolithography system, serves as a demonstration of
precision manufacturing capabilities that researchers will apply to studies
of computing efficiency and energy harvesting methods. The team used a
NanoFrazor machine employing thermal scanning probe lithography, where a
heated needle-like tip etches highly precise patterns at the nanoscale onto a
chip coated with gel-like resist material. While the individual violin takes
roughly three hours to produce, the research team spent several months
refining their techniques to achieve the final result, which exists as a
microscopic image rather than a playable instrument.

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