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Microscopic Mona Lisa 10,000 times smaller than real one printed
Using new nanotechnology, researchers have reproduced a colour image of Mona Lisa which is less than one pixel on an iPhone Retina display -- 50 micrometres long or about 10,000 times smaller than the real Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
London: Using new nanotechnology, researchers have reproduced a colour image of Mona Lisa which is less than one pixel on an iPhone Retina display -- 50 micrometres long or about 10,000 times smaller than the real Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The breakthrough revolutionises laser printing technology, allowing people to print high-resolution data and colour images of unprecedented quality and microscopic dimensions.
The new laser technology allows printing in a mind-blowing resolution of 127,000 dots per inch (DPI). In comparison, weekly or monthly magazines are normally printed in a resolution equivalent to 300 DPI.
The team from Technical University of Debmark (DTU) believes that there is considerable scope for application of the new laser printing technology.
Printing the microscopic images requires a special nanoscale-structured surface. The structure consists of rows with small columns with a diameter of merely 100 nanometres each. This structured surface is then covered by 20 nanometres of aluminium. When a laser pulse is transmitted from nanocolumn to nanocolumn, the nanocolumn is heated locally, after which it melts and is deformed.
The temperature can reach up to 1,500 degree Celcius but only for a few nanoseconds, preventing the extreme heat from spreading. Strong laser pulses create a drastic deformation, which gives the reflection from the nanocolumn an orange and yellow colour tone.
The new laser printing technology can also be used on a larger scale to personify products such as mobile phones with unique decorations, names, etc.
