An old guitar det...

1997/11/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Patenteak/Asmakizunak

The smallest guitar in the world is the size of a human cell and the thickness of a twenty part of a human hair.

Dustin Car and Harold Craighead of Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) have worked on the crystalline silicon layer located in a substrate oxide of the guitar called “nanogitarra” with electron beams. The guitar strings have been made by chemical extraction of part of the oxide.

Each thread has a thickness of about 100 atoms. You can play the guitar through an atomic force microscope, but our ear would not hear the sound because the vibration frequencies are inadequate. This curiosity has been organized to see how far nanotechnology can go.