Abstract: The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is one of the most versatile tools in nanotechnology. For control engineers this instrument is particularly interesting, since its ability to image the ...

This atomic force microscope is really cool because it's different than any other microscope I've ever used. Instead of using light or electrons to image a sample, it actually touches it at the ...

Abstract: If the Twentieth Century boasted of the Space Age and the Computer Age, the Twenty-First Century is certainly starting off with the Age of Biology, or at least Biochemistry. The enormous ...

¹ EMAT, University of Antwerp, Department of Physics, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium ² NANOlab Center of Excellence, University of Antwerp, Department of Physics, Groenenborgerlaan 171 ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Non-Commercial (NC): Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted. Kelvin probe ...

Prior to the development of MRI, Mansfield and Grannell proposed NMR diffraction (NMRd) as a method to investigate the structure of crystalline materials. When realized on the atomic scale, NMRd would ...

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a label-free and non-invasive technique that probes the vibrational modes of molecules, thus providing a structure-specific spectrum. The development of infrared ...

German scientists have built a high resolution microscope out of Lego parts and components salvaged from a mobile phone, according to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist. They found that ...

Sayuri Romei examines Soviet records produced in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the continuing importance of Hiroshima to Russian foreign policy. "Nobody should ...

When density functional theory is used to describe the electronic structure of periodic systems, the application of Bloch's theorem to the Kohn-Sham wavefunctions greatly facilitates the calculations.