Featuring Professor Philip Moriarty See links and notes below for more details: Nottingham Nanoscience group's papers as PDFs: http://bit.ly/NottinghamNano Selected key papers in the field: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5944/1110 [IBM Zurich] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/444.full [Franz Giessibl] http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/05/30/atom-by-atom/ The smallest magnetic byte Sixty Symbols video about IBM Almaden's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0PY-vgLHCQ Atomic switch video mentioned by Phil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBmBMmuUBMk Some notes from discussion with Prof Moriarty 1. At 5:45, that Silicon cantilevers can be used to see atoms as long as the oscillation amplitude is high. See Sugimoto et al. Nature 446 64 (2007) 2. Terrible guitar playing chose by Brady against Phil's wishes - see our gold ratio song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgQPSUTWVM featuring Phil's work! EXTRA FOOTAGE FROM THIS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXKYVw74RTM Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/periodicvideos This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/index.aspx Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran A run-down of Brady's channels: http://bit.ly/bradychannels