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News Release 05-144
Researchers Carve with Electricity at the Nanometer Scale
Process may yield miniscule molecular detection devices, semiconducting connectors and molecular sieves
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![The holes that spell "NSF" are only 10 nanometers in diameter.](/news/mmg/media/images/nsf_red_f.jpg)
Using their new Electric Pen Lithography technique, University of Arkansas researchers carved the letters "NSF" into a gold sheet. The holes are only 10 nanometers in diameter.
Credit: Ajay Malshe, University of Arkansas
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