Quantum mechanical effects help overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

New Electron Microscopy Technique Reveals Zeolite Structure to Enhance Function

Researchers from the labs of Professors Vinayak Dravid and Omar Farha developed a high-resolution approach to map ...

Framework sets new benchmarks for 3D atom maps in amorphous materials

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...
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A View into the Innermost Workings of Life: Hesse's First Scanning Electron Microscope with Nanomanipulator Inaugurated

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...
sciencex

Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...
AZOM

Advancing Material Science Through Electron Microscopy: Insights from Professor Sarah Haigh

In this interview, AZoMaterials speaks with Professor Sarah Haigh, Professor of Materials Characterization at the University of Manchester, about her pioneering work in electron microscopy and its ...
Mississippi State University

MSU faculty members secure grant for region’s first advanced scanning electron microscope

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Institute for Imaging and Analytical Technologies soon will be home to a scanning electron microscope so advanced that it will be the first of its kind in the ...
AOL

Scientists built a microscopic ‘ocean’ on a silicon chip to study quantum waves

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the unpredictable ripples that shape tsunamis, tides, and turbulent flows. Now, ...
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Inside the Machine That Lets Scientists Cut Metal Atom by Atom

Using focused electron beams and nanomanipulators, scientists can now cut and shape metal samples just billionths of a meter thick — directly inside an electron microscope. The technique reveals how ...
Live Science

What are the 'magic numbers' in nuclear physics, and why are they so powerful?

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Nanowerk

Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultracold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers. (Nanowerk News) Scientists can now ...
The Digital Universe

New BYU microscopes offer atomic-level imaging, student-led research

Felipe Rivera, director of the microscopy facility at BYU, stands in front of one of the university’s new transmission electron microscopes, which will allow undergraduate students to capture 3D ...