Is this the smallest Holiday Greeting ever?

God Jul! A seasonal greeting in Swedish saying Happy Holiday from the OIST Structural Cellular Biology Unit, led by Professor Ulf Skoglund from Sweden.

Hirotoshi Furusho used the new FIB-SEM Helios 650 instrument to engrave the greeting into a silicon wafer. The letters are just half a green light-wavelength in size!

The OIST shisa symbol must be the smallest ever drawn - just the size of a small bacterium!

With the technology, the unit is developing new structural analysis methods for biological samples.

Date:

26 December 2011

Category:

Research Update

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Structural biology

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Structural Cellular Biology Unit

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