Happy Halloween everyone!

If you still don’t know what to wear tonight, here are a few rockstar halloween ideas:

ELVIS

ROCKSTAR

PINK GUITAR-POODLE HYBRID

THE BEATLES

MARIACHI

Cornell University researchers created the smallest guitar from crystalline silicon. The Nano guitar is only 10 micrometers in size, is about the size of a cell. It has six ultra tiny strings about 100 atoms in width. The new technology demonstrates a new generation of electromechanical devices.

Using high-voltage electron beam lithography at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, one of only two similar machines in this country, the structures were sculpted out of single crystal silicon on oxide substrates. A resist is used to pattern the top silicon layer. The oxide that is underneath this layer can be selectively removed using a wet chemical etch. The result: free-standing structures in silicon crystal.

Now if only we can find a way to teach bacterias to play it then this world would be a better place.