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Pennsylvania University's physicist uses new technology to develop nanodevices
Sep 8 2008, Ritu

Now, Physicists of the University of Pennsylvania are developing nanostructure metal, not more than 10 nanometers. Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created,..

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