Mar. 04, 2011

Nanosurf and Zurich Instruments Announce Partnership

Nanosurf and Zurich Instruments has announced the start of a strategic technology partnership to develop ease of use high-performance scanning probe microscopes:
Nanosurf will propose the Zurich Instruments 50 MHz PLL as upgrade path to its easyPLL and easyPLL plus platform, thereby granting Zurich Instruments immediate access to its large community of PLL users moreOct. 06, 2010

High Speed Measurements of Individual Atoms

IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique in Science that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the ability to record, study and "visualize" extremely fast phenomena inside these atoms.
Just as the first motion pictures conveyed movement through high-speed photography, scientists at IBM Research - Almaden are using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope like a high-speed camera to record the behavior of individual atoms at a speed about one million times faster than previously possible. moreAug. 23, 2010

Take a Look Inside Molecules

So far it has been difficult to observe atomic structures inside organic molecules. In the journal Physical Review Letters, Jülich researchers from Germany explain their novel method, which enables them to take an "X- ray view" inside molecules. The method may facilitate the analysis of organic semiconductors and proteins. more