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Record breaker The researchers test the QR code during their successful world record attempt. (Courtesy: TU Wien) But this wasn’t just a ploy to get into the record books, the QR code was created as ...

Scientists have created a QR code that is smaller than most bacteria, offering a novel way to store data. Using beams of charged particles, a team from Vienna University of Technology in Austria ...

Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s ...

Just how small can a QR code be? Small enough that it can only be recognized with an electron microscope. A research team at TU Wien, working together with the data storage technology company Cerabyte ...

Tiny details: QR codes are designed to efficiently and securely store digital data in a compact, two-dimensional form. Researchers at TU Wien took this principle further – delving into the microscopic ...

A research team at TU Wien and Cerabyte just shrunk the QR code to an impossible scale. Their creation measures only 1.98 square micrometers. This makes the code smaller than most bacteria. It is so ...

On December 3, the team secured a Guinness World Record for the world’s smallest QR code. Spanning just around 2 sq. micrometres, the code is about one-third the size of the previous record holder and ...

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QR codes. For many of us, they’re synonymous with a) the pandemic, b) the ongoing lack of actual menus in bars and restaurants, and c) the fact that the world is now just that little bit more tiresome ...

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