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Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...





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Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique

Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions ...


Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars

Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds ...


Delicate Relation between Single Spins

Delicate Relation between Single Spins

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Probing the magnetic interaction between single atoms is no longer a dream. Using a scanning tunnelling microscope, the interaction of the spins of two neighbouring cobalt atoms adsorbed at a copper surface ...


Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...


Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules

Discovery to aid study of biological structures, molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the instrument ...


Crystal Lattice of Copper

Nano-sonar uses electrons to measure under the surface

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals. ...


IBM Scientists Effectively Eliminate Wear at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially ...


New 'superlens' reveals hidden nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 14, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (41) | comments 0

A microscope used to scan nanostructures can be dramatically enhanced by using a 'superlens,' reports an international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biochemistry and The University of Texas at ...


A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

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 ...


Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, ...



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