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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

These ideas were later realized by the use of the scanning tunneling microscope, the atomic force microscope and other examples of scanning probe microscopy and storage systems such as Millipede, created by researchers at IBM.

In "The Tree of Time", a short story published in 1964, Damon Knight uses the idea of a barrier which has to be constructed atom by atom (a time barrier, in the story).


Pantograph

Richard Feynman used the analogy of a pantograph as a way of scaling down tools to the nanometer scale in his talk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.


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