The AFM market is buoyed by demands in semiconductor miniaturization and nanotechnology research, requiring precise metrology solutions. Growth opportunities lie in automated AFM systems for yield ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing ...

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...

Scientists achieve optical measurements at atomic scales using quantum electron tunneling, surpassing conventional microscopy limits by nearly 100,000 times with standard lasers.

By combining atomic force microscopy (AFM) with a Hadamard productbased image reconstruction algorithm, scientists ...

Invented 30 years ago, the atomic force microscope has been a major driver of nanotechnology, ranging from atomic-scale imaging to its latest applications in manipulating individual molecules, ...

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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 ...

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...