Nanomechanical systems developed at TU Wien have now reached a level of precision and miniaturization that will allow them to ...
A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest movements of a laser beam with extreme sensitivity.
By Shashank Joshi and Shambo Samrat Samajdar Shatapath Brahman describes time as a graceful inward journey, where each unit becomes progressively finer, almost like zooming into the universe with a ...
A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...
What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...
By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...
Curious about where Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is making the biggest impact right now? The new AFM Industry Focus eBook brings together some of the latest stories, insights, and real-world examples ...
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 ...
Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.