World Map Gets Etched on a Tiny Silicon Chip
December 17th, 2009 link to (permalink)
Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium have etched a tiny world map–on a scale of 1 trillion—on to a optical silicon chip. They reduced the earth’s 25,000-mile circumference at the equator down to 40 micrometers or about half the width of a human hair to fit it on the chip.
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