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By Colin Barras
New Scientist
January 26, 2009
"[The letters in] small print just produced by physicists at Stanford University ... equal the record for the smallest ever made, at just 1.5 nanometres tall.
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"[In 1991,] researchers at Japanese firm Hitachi set the record for microscopic calligraphy. Their 1.5-nanometre-tall letters were chiselled into a molybdenum disulphide crystal, ... using a [scanning tunnelling microscope (STM)]. ... Now Christopher Moon and Hari Manoharan's team at Stanford University have equalled Hitachi's record using a holographic ... technique.
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"Being able to write information on such tiny scales could lead to new ways to pack large amounts of data into small spaces."
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