One Very Small USS Enterprise

Two scientists in Japan decided to make a model ship, the Enterprise, so small you need a microscope to see it and in the mean time taking the art of building model ships to a whole new level. I wonder where they will keep it?

In what certainly has to be the smallest scale ever for a science-fiction ship model, two scientists have constructed the USS Enterprise in a one-billionth scale.The scale model of the Enterprise is so tiny, that it can only be seen by an electron microscope.Scientists Takayuki Hoshino and Shinji Matsui of the Himeji Institute of Technology, located in Japan, used a focused ion beam to cut out the model, using a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD).The CVD process used phenanthrene gas to etch the tiny 8.8 micrometer USS Enterprise.

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