A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics. One of the challenges of cramming smarter and more powerful electronics ...

Open the Youtube video In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had ...

Our smartphones and computers are becoming increasingly smaller and more powerful. To keep pace, chipmakers continually shrink and enhance the chips that power them. Now, physicists have unveiled a ...

IMDEA Nanociencia's 'Photon STM' laboratory is one of the four tunneling microscopes that this institute, located on the campus of the Autonomous University of Madrid, has. The peculiarity of this ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Scientists tracked an atom's nuclear spin in real time with a tunneling microscope, finding it stable for seconds, opening paths to better magnetic control. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Delft ...

Physicists are Getting Closer to Controlling Single-Molecule Chemical Reactions – Could This Shape the Future of Pharmaceutical Research? An artist’s representation of a scanning tunnelling microscope ...

Michigan State University combined terahertz laser light, shown as a red wavy arrow, with a scanning tunneling microscope, or STM, tip — the dark pyramid shape exchanging a red electron with a sample ...

Artist impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum states. The flipping was observed as a fluctuation in the electrical current ...