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A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

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A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

IBM's record-setting stop-motion film made by moving individual carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope, illustrating atomic-scale memory research.

Cited as a striking example of atom-level manipulation and STM imaging, including the ripples viewers ask about.

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