A boy and his atom - by IBM

[Otispunkmeyer]

This is a cool little stop motion film made by IBM. They achieved it by moving a group of atoms on an individual basis! Pretty neat.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ibm-creates-wor...

[Tanguero]

Also probably the worlds coolest film... shot at 5.15K

[White-Noise]

Thats amazing, thanks for sharing! Does anyone know how they would make this? Why do the atoms look like little balls; I never thought they would look like that? And what surface would you film this on? Does anyone on here know enough to explain these?

[Mudgey]

That is awesome and I am in for a little more info about this and the questions asked above!

[bigandclever]

If only there was a 'behind the scenes' film... https://www.youtube.com/ibm?x=us-en_atomic2_690_41

[Nimby]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_mi...

The image shows (effectively) the electron density of each atom. The scanning tip can be used to move atoms adhering to a surface as well as mapping them.