What is a nanometre?

Video in French - A nanometre represents one billionth of a metre. Numerous nano-sized objects may be found in nature, but man is now capable of producing them as well...

Visuals copyrights: Synchrotron SOLEIL, Intel, Computer History Museum, Texas Instruments, Fairchild

Nanotechnology - Feel free to watch our other videos (in French) on this topic:

1/ What is a nanometre?

2/ The nanoworld

3/ Singular properties of nanoparticles

4/ Giant magnetoresistance (GMR)

5/ The scanning tunnelling microscope

6/ The nanoworld at SOLEIL

7/ SAMBA and soft chemistry

8/ SWING and zeolites

9/ TEMPO and molecular grafting 

10/ CASSIOPEE and tunnel junctions