Jan 20
Well this is a first. I have seen a ton of huge snowmen over the years but never the worlds smallest snowman. Check this thing out! A scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in West London created this little guy.
Measuring just 0.01 mm across, or about 1/5th the width of a human hair. This snowman was created from two tin beads, normally used to calibrate electron microscopes, and welded together with platinum. To create the face on this snowman a focused ion beam was used to mill the eyes and smile. The nose, just under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), and is platinum deposited by an ion beam.
