Article: 'Quantum mirage' makes nano-circuits possible.(Brief Article)

Article: "Quantummirage" may enable atom-scale circuits; IBM scientists ...
M2 Presswire;  February 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... atoms. To create the quantum mirage, the scientists first ... electron surrounding the cobalt atom were detected even ... intensity around the cobalt atom. "We have become ... The operation of the quantum mirage is similar to how light ...

Article: BIG STEP TOWARD ULTRA-TINY CIRCUITS
United Press International;  February 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Nature the so-called quantum mirage effect, which carries ... authors said. "The quantum mirage technique may prove ... Lutz discovered the quantum mirage using a device that ... they placed another cobalt atom inside th

Article: Big step toward ultra-tiny circuits.
United Press International;  February 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Nature the so-called quantum mirage effect, which carries ... authors said. "The quantum mirage technique may prove ... Lutz discovered the quantum mirage using a device that ... they placed another cobalt atom inside the ring ...

Article: Precise atom manipulation.(Emerging Technologies)
R & D;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... between the STM tip's end and a single cobalt atom on the surface of a bed of closely packed ... interaction allowed them to move the cobalt atom to a desired location. The NIST researchers ... the energy environment surrounding the cobalt atom. Minor increases in the current flowing ...

Article: Scientists tame "hip hop" atoms.
Biotech Week;  September 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... tunneling microscope (STM) to move a cobalt atom around on a bed of copper atoms that ... closer to the surface to push or pull the cobalt atom. In the research described in Science, NIST scientists discovered that the cobalt atom responds to both the STM tip and the ...

Article: Determining friction at the nanoscale
Tribology & Lubrication Technology;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... much force would be needed to move a cobalt atom on a platinum (111) surface and on ... s energy level. Lutz says, "The cobalt atom may be forced from a lowest energy state ... that the lateral force needed to move a cobalt atom on the Pt (111) surface was 210 piconewtons ...

Article: Scientists at South China Normal University publish research in ...
China Weekly News;  July 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... CO)(4) have two terminal carbonyl groups on each cobalt atom rather than three terminal carbonyl groups on one cobalt atom and only one terminal carbonyl group on the other cobalt atom," wrote G.H. Li and colleagues, South China Normal ...