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Yeah, the smallest drill bits regularly commercially available are on the order of 1mm. That’s 6 orders of magnitude.
by TylerE 4y ago
Yeah, the smallest drill bits regularly commercially available are on the order of 1mm. That’s 6 orders of magnitude.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoIndividual silicon atoms in a crystal are around 0.2nm apart. https://www.princeton.edu/~maelabs/mae324/glos324/silicon.htm https://www.princeton.edu/~maelabs/mae324/glos324/silicon.ht... So no, you don't get drill bits that are 1-2 atoms wide. Also it would take a long time to "drill" a useful number of holes if you do it one by one. Use X-ray lithography maybe? The wavelength can be short enough and it might be more feasible to do in bulk.