News tagged with scanning tunneling microscopy
Enabling graphene-based technology via chemical functionalization
May 17, 2009 |
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Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells. While the physics ...
Nanoscale materials grow with the flow (Videos)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for builders in the everyday world, ...
The pseudogap persists as material superconducts
Jan 27, 2009 |
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For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries of superconductivity, where materials conduct electricity with zero resistance.
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New use found for tunneling microscope
Apr 23, 2007 |
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Dutch researchers have found a new use for scanning tunneling microscopes: visualizing individual catalysts at work at a solid-liquid interface.
Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces
Nov 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...
Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Nanoscale devices present a unique challenge to any optical technology -- there’s just not enough room for light to travel in a straight line.
Researchers demonstrate single molecule absorption spectroscopy
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Dec 21, 2005 |
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A powerful new tool for probing molecular structure on surfaces has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Single molecule absorption spectroscopy can enhance molecular ...
Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Our ability to see is based on molecules in the eye that flip from one conformation to another when exposed to visible light. Now, a new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal ...
It's raining pentagons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 08, 2009 |
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This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...
Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...
Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld
Jul 17, 2008 |
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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, ...
Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...
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