News tagged with scanning tunnelling microscope
In touch with molecules
Nov 12, 2009 |
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The performance of modern electronics increases steadily on a fast pace thanks to the ongoing miniaturization of the utilized components. However, se-vere problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena ...
Nano-sonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
Feb 27, 2009 |
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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. ...
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Delicate Relation between Single Spins
Mar 01, 2007 |
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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
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 ...
Scientists invent 1.2nm molecular gear
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim, have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear ...
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.
Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension
Jul 06, 2009 |
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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. ...
Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Probing the inner secrets of multi-layer carbon nanotubes
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown for the first time that knowing the structure of the surface layer of a multi-layer carbon nanotube is not enough to predict its electronic properties. The contribution of ...
World's Most Precise Microscope Headed For UVic
Jul 16, 2009 |
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A new microscope that views the subatomic universe -- the first of its kind in the world -- is being built for the University of Victoria, Canada, in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies.
Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier
Feb 17, 2008 |
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Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said.
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