An atomic force microscope uses a cantilever with a sharp ... if we have a charge transfer or if we exchange one atom or dissociate one atom,” explains Gross. Beside resolving the structures ...

They had captured the X-ray fingerprint of a single atom. For Hla ... unveiled an extraordinary invention: the field ion microscope (FIM). With this new tool, Müller achieved the unthinkable ...

The power of this technique is that it is possible to determine local physical properties directly from measurements of shifts of the individual atom positions. The conventional concept of image ...

"With this microscope, we hope the scientific community ... Related: Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors To create an ...

IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or STM for short ... or the diameter of a large atom. Quantum Mechanics is a strange world, indeed. Everyday things that we take for granted, things like ...

NIST researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to move a single cobalt atom (blue sphere) in a small molecule back and forth between two positions on a crystal surface (first two images).

Some of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common.

A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of matter that make up everything around you.

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and ...