For decades, we relied on silicon as the semiconductor for our computer chips. But now, working at nanometer scales, it looks like physical limitations may end the current methods to include more and more processing power onto each individual chip.
By Brett Smith
1 Jun 2016
Materials that contain both the properties of a conductor and an electrical insulator are known as semiconductors.
By Brett Smith
31 May 2016
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was first used in 1986 and uses a cantilever with a sharp tip to scan across a sample to produce a topographic map. The process is now expanding its use over a range of applications.
By Kimberly Lawson
27 May 2016
Companies and researchers are applying nanomaterials to photovoltaics to lower their manufacturing costs and improve their capabilities. This includes improving their efficiency when converting light into electricity.
By Kimberly Lawson
26 May 2016
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) offers optically encoded data about live cells processes. In contrast, atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides mechanical and nanometer-resolved surface topography data, and has now been extended to mechanical property mapping of nanometer-resolved live cells.
Scanning microwave impedance microscopy, also known as sMIM, is an atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based method used for the characterization of materials and devices.
Frequency modulation PeakForce Kelvin Probe Microscopy (FM- KPFM) and amplitude modulation KPFM (AM-KPFM) are the two critical KPFM detection methods. This article provides an intuitive and geometrically rational probe model to describe their radical variations in spatial resolution and precision.
Discovered less than a decade ago, graphene is a “super material” that has engineers in many different fields excitedly pursing varied uses for it. Graphene is made of carbon in a honeycomb-lattice and is just one atom thick. It is a very good conductor of heat and electricity, virtually transparent
By Brett Smith
18 May 2016
Prof Antje Baeumner, talks to AZoNano about her research into a new nanofiber material used within biosensors to explore new functionalities that can be used within the assays.
An innovative standard has been set by Hysitron’s XPM in the area of nanomechanical testing throughput, coupled with precision and measurement resolution.