Homer meets nano: Shrinking 2700 year old Greek poetry with state-of-the-art nanotechnology

Abstract

• Homer's Odyssey was written with e-beam lithography on a piece of silicon • All 303 pages of the poem fit in an area of less than 138μmX184μm or 0.025mm 2 • Diacritic marks of the Greek language were printed with resolution of a few nanometers • We predict that 130 million books existing today could be printed on only 186 wafers using this approach • Implications on preservation of human cultural heritage are discussed