Some of you might find this interesting

[mixedgas]

What was thought impossible:

http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/tech...07/06/06/p5285

imaging of single electron movement. True? you decide.

Steve

[The_Doctor]

It interests me. And it looks true. Assuming it's as it's told there, and I don't have a way to know so I'll just take it as it is. It reminds me of the STM that sees atoms by the way they affect a larger system (electric fields). If it's in any way similar in its reversibility, it might make a way to control movements of individual electrons. Not that I have any clue where that might lead.

[heroic]

It interests me. And it looks true. Assuming it's as it's told there, and I don't have a way to know so I'll just take it as it is. It reminds me of the STM that sees atoms by the way they affect a larger system (electric fields). If it's in any way similar in its reversibility, it might make a way to control movements of individual electrons. Not that I have any clue where that might lead.

Well, we've had Josephoson junctions, quantum dots and single-electron transistors for a while, so yeah. Seems likely to be true, but not so incredible as you might think.

Anyway, roll on visible quantum dot lasers :-)