“Nano Trek”: World’s Smallest Model USS Enterprise Measures 8.8 Micrometers
Presenting the world’s smallest model of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise-D! Measuring a whole 8.8 micrometers in length — or less than one-tenth the thickness of a human hair — “Nano Trek” was fabricated by Japanese scientists at one-billionth scale using a “30 kV Ga+ focused-ion-beam CVD using phenanthrene gas.”
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