Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing instruments capable of resolving them with any clarity. The journey from the first ...

Rydberg atoms are atoms with one or more outer electrons excited to very high energy levels, which interact very strongly with each other. These atoms are widely used to run quantum simulations and ...

New first-principles simulations reveal how metallic surfaces reshape nanoscale vibrational imaging, advancing the interpretation of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. (Nanowerk News) Probing the ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

A new technical paper, “3D atomic-scale metrology of strain relaxation and roughness in Gate-All-Around transistors via electron ptychography,” was published by researchers at Cornell University, ASM ...

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter At the nanoscale all atoms vibrate. These vibrations define heat dissipation, chemical reactions, and material properties. The different ...

Probing the vibration of atoms provides detailed information on local structure and bonding that define material properties. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) offers extremely high resolution to ...