Nanometre

DVD tech breakthrough could produce 1,000 TB capacity discs

World’s Smallest Propeller Could be Used for Microscopic Medicine

Still images drawn with the technology: at around 70 micrometres across each image is smaller than the width of a human hair.

‘Nano-pixels’ promise thin, flexible high-res displays

The image on the left is an electron beam microscopy image of the extremity of the plasmon nano-tweezers. The image on the right is a sketch illustrating the trapping of a nanoparticle in the bowtie aperture. Credit: Institute of Photonic Sciences

Optical nano-tweezers take over the control of nano-objects

Nanowires with the power to transform solar energy

French team pushes limit of electronics miniaturization

Just Add Water: How Scientists Are Using Silicon to Produce Hydrogen on Demand

World’s Smallest Electric Motor Made from a Single Molecule