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New electron glasses sharpen view of atomic-scale features

A new approach to atom probe tomography promises more precise and accurate measurements vital to semiconductors used in computers, lasers, detectors, and more.

Sep 6th, 2018

Scaling up single-crystal graphene

New method can make films of atomically thin carbon that are over a foot long.

Sep 6th, 2018

Novel 3D nanoprinted polymer lenses for X-ray microscopes

Scientists have invented a new and cost-effective method for making X-ray lenses with nanometer-sized features and excellent focusing capabilities.

Sep 6th, 2018

Why size matters for gold as a catalyst

Advanced microscopy study reveals insights into the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles.

Sep 5th, 2018

Heat transfer surprise could lead to thermal transistors

As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances.

Sep 5th, 2018

A pill for delivering biomedical micromotors

Scientists report that they have found a way to encapsulate micromotors into pills. The pill's coating protects the devices as they traverse the digestive system prior to releasing their drug cargo.

Sep 5th, 2018

Researchers confirm improved theory of atomic nucleus by measuring nuclear radii

Physicists have performed laser spectroscopy on cadmium isotopes to confirm an improved model of the atomic nucleus. It has been developed to describe the exceptional behaviour of the radii of calcium isotopes.

Sep 5th, 2018

Controlling light at the nanoscale with graphene

Researchers are developing ways to use graphene efficiently in novel optical technologies with potential applications in medical imaging, biosensing, signal processing and computing.

Sep 5th, 2018

2D atomic crystals probe: how hot it is in a plasmonic 'hotspot'

Scientists have developed a quantitative SERS technique to probe the maximum plasmonic fields before effects such as electron tunneling become dominant.

Sep 5th, 2018

Scientists probe molecular limits of plasmonics

Optical effect detailed in organic molecules with fewer than 50 atoms.

Sep 4th, 2018

Ultracold atoms used to verify 1963 prediction about 1D electronics

Atomic physicists have verified a key prediction from a 55-year-old theory about one-dimensional electronics that is increasingly relevant thanks to Silicon Valley's inexorable quest for miniaturization.

Sep 4th, 2018

Peering into private life of atomic clusters - using the world's tiniest test tubes

Having already succeeded in 'filming' inter-molecular chemical reactions - using the electron beam of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) as a stop-frame imaging tool - researchers have now achieved time-resolved imaging of atomic-scale dynamics and chemical transformations promoted by metal nanoclusters.