Wien

American

[veen] / vin /

noun

Wilhelm 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1911.
German name of Vienna.

Wien ¹ British

/ viːn /

noun

the German name for Vienna

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Wien ² British

/ viːn /

noun

Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1864–1928, German physicist, who studied black-body radiation: Nobel prize for physics 1911

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Scientists at TU Wien, working with data storage company Cerabyte, produced a QR code measuring just 1.98 square micrometers, which is smaller than most bacteria.

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"The structure we have created here is so fine that it cannot be seen with optical microscopes at all," says Prof. Paul Mayrhofer from TU Wien's Institute of Materials Science and Technology.

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The record-setting QR code and its verification process, including electron microscope readout, were conducted jointly by TU Wien and Cerabyte in front of witnesses.

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A new study from TU Wien may represent a step toward solving that problem.

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Scientists at TU Wien have now demonstrated that even when the particle picture fails, materials can still display topological properties.

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