Many material properties depend on how electrons are arranged inside a material. Their distribution determines, for example, ...

That small, smooth, dome-shaped structure sitting among the ridges is a mite's eye. True compound eyes, built from thousands ...

A collaborative research group led by Hiroshi Daimon, a specially appointed research fellow at the Institute for Molecular ...

A new atom holography microscope uses a focused SEM beam to map 3D atomic arrangements in nanoscale regions with about 0.1 angstrom accuracy.

Brookhaven Lab's new electron microscope delivers 200x sharper energy resolution, enabling simultaneous atomic analysis of ...

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Brookhaven Lab has installed an electron microscope with 200 times better energy resolution to advance battery, quantum and ...

China has built Asia's first fourth-generation circular synchrotron radiation facility, often called a "dream microscope," ...

When Dr. Amanda Stadermann loads a meteorite sample into the Department of Earth and Environmental Science’s new scanning ...

This atomic force microscope is really cool because it's different than any other microscope I've ever used. Instead of using light or electrons to image a sample, it actually touches it at the ...