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Yeah I'm gonna need one of those. Can you overnight it? Gotta be back to work tomorrow and I'd like to hash it out a little before the work week starts.
Let us hope that the technology stays in Switzerland and is NOT hi-jacked by the Americans and “passed-off” as intellectual property. You know they would….
Just remove the apostrophe. The Swiss use apostrophes to denote negative thousands in the same way other countries use commas to denote positive thousands.
the only criticism I have is that you should have used actual units in the video. no one has an intuitive understanding of 1 milimiter divided by a million.....
Actually, we can go even to further resolutions than this. However, getting an entire chip with these resolutions is quite an achievement. I would say they use a resolution of triangulated image (or STL output) of 0.5um or 0.0005mm, which is incredible but not first seen. Congrats anyway, the scan looks amazing 😅
Microchips are made with light, thats the only way to do them this small. Similar to coin sculptors who make the coin design in a big surface and a reducing arm copies it to the actual die that will be used for pressing. Here they use lenses to focus a high intensity beam into a photosensitive wafer that gets burnt layer by layer imprinting several copies of the chip at once. Interesting how X-Rays are the only realistic way to look inside a chip that was made with UV Light.
Fortunately not - unfortunately I can only refer to CT, as I encountered normal x-ray machines only at the dentist and CT usually means I have a kidney stone. But the CT machines all were new ones with a low dose of radiation.
Yes, the scale has dropped over the years. But there will be physical limits in the future, as the size of the structures slowly approaches the size of the silicon atoms. Currently the limits are technical.
4/1000 000? that is 4µm, but the current technology makes transistors with gates sized like 40~60nm i guess, so that is 100times smaller than the record here? or did i got something wrong?
You are scientifically illiterate. It should be 4 nanometres, not 4 millionths of a millimetre. Why can't you use the normal units? You don't measure your driving speed in millimetres per year.
Innovations like this make me think of the ship Minds from The Culture series that can scan another civilization's devices from orbit and know exactly what they can do and what they're doing. That's a way off - but still, science is awesome :)
no no, you can see the layers, with an electron microscope you can see it as clear as day, but, here you have multiple layers.....so you are looking inside of a chip, not on the surface.
No no no no no no the layers are layered so small that you couldn’t see it. But the microscope was clear on the inside of the layered outside. Microscopically of course
@@TravisRichey This is only a very, very tiny fraction of the whole chip which, if blown up to the scale of this image, would be several _kilometers_ across. It's like looking at a brick in a wall and thinking that's all of Manhattan.
@@adrianlovic6486It's a tiny sample excised from a much larger silicon chip (not silicone, which is a type of plastic called an elastomer). A chip like the processor in your computer. Such chips contain hundreds of millions of transistors, are about the size of a large postage stamp, and are every bit as complex as a large city like New York or Boston. What you're seeing here would be comparable to a portion of a city block. A few houses and the corner store.
Coole Technologie, aber der Name ist wirklich denkbar schlecht und die Einheiten in diesem Video mehr als fragwürdig. Welcher ernstzunehmende Wissenschaftler oder Ingenieur verwendet bitte Bruchteile von Millimetern als Einheit? Für so etwas wurden Exponenten erfunden!
shouldnt it be a virtual world record? i mean since they used digital imaging techniques to increase their resolution. thats basically cheating. or maybe this is them stating that imaging cannot get better better than it is without some kind of software helping out. a lot has changed whithin this digital era. and i cant wait to see what else we come up with in this crazy universe
You are mistaken, the stated 4 nm resolution refers to the microchip features. This has nothing to do with making the visual nice by rounding the edges. Think of it as antialiasing in video games : doesn't increase resolution, just makes the image nicer to look at.
This year's breakthrough is next generations standard. I Imagine this is getting us one step closer to star trek style replicators. It's just going to take a few more breakthroughs. We have cooling lasers, "Photonic tweezers" these xray imagers, molecularly pure toners. We are getting there.
