In an attempt to promote the EHSM meeting (Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting) taking place in Hamburg, Germany, a group of scientists and artists have created the world’s smallest comic strip, so tiny that it’s etched onto a single human hair.
According to Mashable a typical human hair is around 20 to 200 microns in width, a micron—or micrometer—being one millionth of a standard meter. Each of the comic’s frames is around 25 micrometers.
The strip was drawn by Claudia Puhlfurst, a German artist, who entitled it “Juana Knits the Planet.” The twelve-frame strip was then carved into a single human hair through a microfabricating process called “focused ion beam,” or FIB, etching, which is essentially a very finely pointed laser beam.
“A very sharp and high-speed jet of matter is produced and directed towards the hair to etch it — similar to a fine laser beam,” is how the project is described on its YouTube account. You can see a video of the comic strip below:
Along with Claudia Puhlfurst’s comic, the second annual EHSM conference will present projects that work with electron beam welding, quantum cryptography, and the reaction of molten glass as it hits water.
Source Mashable
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