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A Canadian researcher has built the world’s smallest 'gingerbread' house out of silicon which is smaller than the width of a human hair.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that Travis Casagrande, who works at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy in Hamilton Ontario built the tiny house (complete with a brick chimney and a wreath over the door) using a device called an “ion blaster,” which uses charged ions of the element gallium, and works like a sandblaster to carve and etch the object onto a piece of silicon. What’s more, the edifice sits on top of the head of a larger figure of a snowman. The entire construction is dwarfed by a human hair in images released by the organization. “Compared to the size of a typical gingerbread house that you might buy in a grocery store kit, mine is 20,000 times smaller,” Casagrande told the CBC.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that Travis Casagrande, who works at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy in Hamilton Ontario built the tiny house (complete with a brick chimney and a wreath over the door) using a device called an “ion blaster,” which uses charged ions of the element gallium, and works like a sandblaster to carve and etch the object onto a piece of silicon. What’s more, the edifice sits on top of the head of a larger figure of a snowman. The entire construction is dwarfed by a human hair in images released by the organization. “Compared to the size of a typical gingerbread house that you might buy in a grocery store kit, mine is 20,000 times smaller,” Casagrande told the CBC.
