This image is part of the series linked in the previous post on the laser turning 50, but it deserves highlighting as a very cool nanotechnology image.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created the smallest semiconducting laser, which could eventually be used for optical computing. A cadmium sulfide wire 50 nanometers in diameter generates visible light and holds it in a five-nanometer space.
Credit: Xiang Zhang Lab/UC Berkeley
David Kirkpatrick 
What exactly do you mean by ” … holds it in a five-nanometer space.”?
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Comment by bre — September 7, 2010 @ 2:22 pm