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This is what the IBM Nano Technology Center looks like from the outside. It's about 21,000 square feet.
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Here's a noise-free lab with no equipment. This is the quietest place on earth.
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Here is the architect, Dr. Emanuel Lörtscher, in a noise-free lab. That hole is a "portal" to where noise-producing stuff like the air conditioner resides.
Here is a noise-free lab with equipment. That's the "Transmission electron microscope" that will let humans see and work with the tiny nanoscale materials.
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Humans work in these no sound zones. This person is operating the Transmission electron microscope.
If you look into the Transmission electron microscope, this is what you see.
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There's all kinds of other wild-looking tech in these noise-free labs. This is a "spin-polarized scanning electron microscope" that IBM scientists developed to work with the tiny nanoscale objects. That's physicist Dr. Rolf Allenspach looking through it.
Here's another lab where cools things are built ...