Man makes microscopic Olympic Torch

Student Peter Kremer has created an Olympic torch on the nanoscale while carrying out research into light particles

Heriot-Watt University/PA

25/07/2012 By pa.press.net

Student Peter Kremer has created an Olympic torch on the nanoscale while carrying out research into light particles (Heriot-Watt University/PA)

A student has created his very own Olympic Torch - 100,000 times smaller than the original.

Peter Kremer, from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, accidentally reproduced the torch on the nanoscale while carrying out research into light particles. He was trying to make an antenna to help funnel a wave of light into and out of a quantum dot - a portion of matter whose smallest parts are confined in all three spatial dimensions.

The 28-year-old PhD student came up with the nano-torch a month ago while experimenting with cones to channel the light down.

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