Featuring Professor Philip Moriarty
See links and notes below for more details:
Nottingham Nanoscience group's papers as PDFs: http://bit.ly/NottinghamNano
Selected key papers in the field:
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/32... [IBM Zurich]
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336... [Franz Giessibl]
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releas...

The smallest magnetic byte Sixty Symbols video about IBM Almaden's work:    • World's Smallest Magnetic Byte - Sixt...  

Atomic switch video mentioned by Phil:    • Atomic Switch (moving individual atom...  

Some notes from discussion with Prof Moriarty
1. At 5:45, that Silicon cantilevers can be used to see atoms as long as the oscillation amplitude is high. See Sugimoto et al. Nature 446 64 (2007)
2. Terrible guitar playing chose by Brady against Phil's wishes - see our gold ratio song at    • Golden Ratio Song - Numberphile   featuring Phil's work!

EXTRA FOOTAGE FROM THIS VIDEO:
   • Sounds of Atoms (extra footage)  

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