News tagged with optical microscopy

Microscopy, quantum-style: Atomic stacks imaged in real space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first optical microscopes appeared in the late 1600s – an exact date and original inventor elude precise identification – microscopy has evolved dramatically. Scanning ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Through a Sensor, Holographically

(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Nanoimaging in 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...

Physics / General Physics

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Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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'Electron vortices' have the potential to increase conventional microscopes' capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Tension in the nanoworld

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Detecting malaria early to save lives: New optical technique promises rapid and accurate diagnosis

Correctly and quickly diagnosing malaria is essential for effective and life-saving treatment. But rapid detection, particularly in remote areas, is not always possible because current methods are time-consuming ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Imaging instruction: Researchers produce 'primer' to guide the use of STORM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it was quickly adopted by the scientific community, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang worried that researchers using the system of technology ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Study unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell's defenses fail against ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Correcting a trick of the light brings molecules into view

Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to "see" something as small as an individual molecule. But as it is wont, clever science has once again overturned conventional wisdom. Secretary ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers use X-ray diffraction microscope to reveal 3-D internal structure of whole cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the new technique, researchers were able to identify the 3-D morphology and structure of cellular organelles, including the cell wall, vacuole, endoplasmic reticulum, mitrochondria, granules and nucleolus. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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F is for Fluoresence and Fluorine: New dyes for optical nanoscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The imaging of living cells at the molecular level was barely a dream twenty years ago. Today, however, this dream is close to becoming reality.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast