Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

This atomic force microscope is really cool because it's different than any other microscope I've ever used. Instead of using ...

A painstaking step in 2D semiconductor research — manually scanning microscope images to locate usable samples one by one — ...

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...

Breakthrough microscope captures the fastest ever view of electrons in motion, opening a new window into the quantum world.

The era of researchers manually searching for two-dimensional semiconductors, which are drawing attention as next-generation AI semiconductors, is ...

The recent availability of AlN substrates with diameters of up to 100 mm could be a game-changer for a number of compound semiconductor devices. This foundation provides a native platform for UVC LEDs ...

Nanomechanical resonators are miniature vibrating structures on chips that oscillate at frequencies ranging from a few ...

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

Arvind Raman has been sworn in as the fifth under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and the 18th director of ...

Device based on two-dimensional oxide interface superconductors can be “edited” using atomic force microscope lithography ...

As the head of NIST, Raman will be charged with overseeing high-profile work in areas like artificial intelligence, quantum ...