Learn about how Mark Raizen and his team at UT Austin have developed the world's highest resolution atom lens. An atom lens is analogous to a glass lens used in an optical microscope or magnifying ...

Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...

A University of Victoria research team says it has reached a microscopy breakthrough with a way to see atomic-scale ...

What lies within the H atom? Experimental observation of the transverse nodal structure of four atomic hydrogen Stark states. The images in the middle show experimental measurements. Interference ...

(TNS) — An ultra-high vacuum scanning tunnel microscope — or UHV STM — has been donated to Miami University through an educational partnership agreement with the Materials and Manufacturing Division ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- When material scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory think big, they start by exploring the world of the really small. Using state-of-the-art technology and ...

The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world’s smallest magnetic resonance image. By Knvul Sheikh As our devices get smaller and more sophisticated, ...

Here's a challenge: envision a trillionth of something. You might think of one penny compared to 10 billion dollars. Or how in travelling one meter, the Earth completes around a trillionth of its ...

For the first time, scientists have seen the exact locations of more than 23,000 atoms in a particle that’s small enough to fit inside the wall of a single cell. Why would anyone care about the ...

Researchers have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties. By moving individual atoms under their microscope, the scientists were able to create atomic lattices with a ...