Scientists use scanning tunneling microscopy to understand how a material's electronic or magnetic properties relate to its structure on the atomic scale. When using this technique, however, they can ...

There are numerous examples in science in which a radically different conceptual approach to solving a problem at hand has resulted in a major scientific breakthrough. Such is the case for scanning ...

This is not an artist’s rendering, nor a physics simulation. This device held together with hardware-store MDF and eyebolts and connected to a breadboard, is taking pictures of actual atomic ...

Researchers from Madrid explain a phenomenon that allows the direction of light emission to be controlled at the atomic scale. The paper provides a detailed explanation of how the profile of the light ...

In a recent study, Manish Garg, independent group leader at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI FKF), ...

Listed in the Guinness World Records, this tiny electric motor needs a special kind of microscope capable of making out a single atom to be seen.

An international research team has succeeded in controlling the chirality of individual molecules through structural isomerization. The team also succeeded in synthesizing highly reactive diradicals ...

Since the first transmission electron microscope was sold in 1935, microscopes that use electrons--rather than light waves--to image objects have brought into focus levels of detail that were ...

Over the past decade, multiprobe scanning tunneling microscopy has emerged as a vital tool for nanoscale electrical characterisation, enabling direct interrogation of local conductivity, electronic ...

Molecular radicals are efficient electroluminescent emitters due to the spin multiplicity of their electronic states. The excited states often exhibit a complex composition with multiple significant ...

1. An international research team led by NIMS, the Osaka University Graduate School of Science and the Kanazawa University Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) has succeeded for the first time in ...