The University of Texas at Dallas

Nano & Beyond Lab

Sculpture Collection

Flag on the Brink, 2006

Flag on the Brink, 2006

A Scanning Electron Microscopy image of a nano flag attached on a Scanning Probe Microscope tip. That tiny thing in the middle of the picture is the nano flag; the flag is 50 nm across, and is so small that simply breathing would blow it away.