Duplicating atomic structures
June 9th, 2009 by rbanks
The Atom Pinhole Camera Is The First Step Towards a Real Star Trek Replicator
“In their atom pinhole camera, the atoms act like photons in an optical pinhole camera, but instead of light traveling through a lens, it travels through a pinhole on a mask and creates a high-res inverted image on a silicon substrate. This camera is capable of resizing nanostructures down to 30 nm—10,000 times smaller than the original. So, a camera with say 10 million pinholes could produce large numbers of identical (or diverse) nanostructures simultaneously.” 
Gizmodo
