• Question: what is the thinnest item you've ever worked with ?

    Asked by Ami_awesome to Maddison on 14 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Maddison Coke

      Maddison Coke answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      The thinnest I’ve ever made is 3 nm (nano-meter is 1,000,000,000 smaller then a meter). this was some gold on some glass. This gold was the thinnest we have done and we use a small needle to run over the surface to actually see how much we have. We use the this gold heated up to make nanoparticles (even smaller) to then go on to make small wires in our machines.

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