Making the World's Smallest Play Button (2^12 subscriber special)

For this project I got the chance to show off one of my favorite tools from work, the Focused Ion Beam! In this video, I use the FIB to 3d print and etch away material at the nanoscale, making a youtube play button that's only 1 hundredth of a millimeter across. It's made of an amorphous mix of platinum and carbon, and it's so small you need an electron microscope to see it properly. Enjoy!

Also: Thanks to all my subscribers!

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That was a lot of exclamation marks… - here's the extra stuff:

#WorldRecord #Nanoscale #Microscope

Filmed in the Materials department at UCSB with permission.

Music in this video: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

BoogieBounce by Drew Banga is licensed under a Creative Commons license ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUPBfhWV3o