News tagged with force probe

Gentle nudges towards Vesta

The Dawn space probe entered into an orbit around the planetoid Vesta. The planetoid is 2.3 times further from the Sun than the Earth. Dawn used the force of gravity to get there. And an ion engine.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Northwestern research team turns theory of static electricity on its head

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bartosz Grzybowski, a physical chemist at Northwestern University, and his team of colleagues offer evidence in a paper published in Science, that shows that what scientists have believed to be ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop integrated nanomechanical sensor for atomic force microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic force microscope (AFM) is an important tool for nanoscale surface metrology. Typical AFMs map local tip-surface interactions by scanning a flexible cantilever probe over a surface. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The use of a different resonance in atomic force microscopy enhances resolution

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a highly sensitive form of microscopy that makes it possible to map a surface with near-atomic resolution. Shaw Wei Kok and colleagues from A*STAR’s Singapore Institute ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light

Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New molecular force probe stretches molecules, atom by atom

Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (40) | comments 1