The chips that drive everyday electronic gadgets such as personal computers and smartphones are made in semiconductor fabrication plants. These plants employ powerful transmission electron microscopes. While they can see ...
General Physics
Oct 30, 2018
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Scientists from Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow imaged an organic chemical reaction with an electron microscope and recorded the transformation in real time. The team from ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 23, 2018
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University of Michigan researchers have developed a powerful microscope that can map how light energy migrates in photosynthetic bacteria on timescales of one-quadrillionth of a second.
Biochemistry
Oct 12, 2018
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A novel technique that nudges single atoms to switch places within an atomically thin material could bring scientists another step closer to realizing theoretical physicist Richard Feynman's vision of building tiny machines ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 10, 2018
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Experts in the Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (nmRC) at the University of Nottingham have taken a first peak into the private life of atomic clusters.
Nanophysics
Sep 4, 2018
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They are among the thinnest structures on earth: "two-dimensional materials" are crystals which consist of only one or a few layers of atoms. They often display unusual properties, promising many new applications in opto-electronics ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 29, 2018
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A new microscopy technique developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago allows researchers to visualize liquids at the nanoscale level—about 10 times more resolution than with traditional transmission electron microscopy—for ...
Nanophysics
Aug 1, 2018
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Electron microscopy has allowed scientists to see individual atoms, but even at that resolution not everything is clear.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 19, 2018
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All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be used to move atoms in materials. ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 9, 2018
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Scientists at the University of Warwick have created a new way to view proteins that are inside human cells.
Biochemistry
Jul 4, 2018
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