Keeping cool: artist’s impression of how atoms (red) are held in place with laser beams and the ion (blue) with electric fields. (Courtesy: University of Amsterdam) A new technique that allows ...
On its cover of the 16th, the international journal Nature featured an image of a glittering sphere creating waves. Around the white sphere, a red sphere appears to react to the waves. This image ...
The types of chemical reactions we typically learn in school take place on a Cecil B. deMille, cast-of-thousands scale. They involve huge numbers of atoms or molecules, making it extremely difficult ...
“In 1990, Don Eigler of IBM’s Almaden Research Center showed that, using an STM, atoms can be placed on top of a surface with atomic precision,” says Jascha Repp of IBM. “Now the next step has been ...
Atomic-resolution imaging. The description sounds so absolute, so ultimate, so technically demanding. Yet nowadays, images that resolve individual atoms are so common. Journals, conference lectures, ...
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