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New Technique Uses Super-Resolution Microscopy to Image Live Cell Structures

Bo Huang, an assistant professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California San Francisco, and Lei Zhu, an assistant professor at George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, have developed a new technique that enables a super-resolution microscope to perform live-cell imaging.

From Georgia Institute of Technology 25 Apr 2012

Oxford Instruments Win Prestigious Prize for SEM X-Ray System

Oxford Instruments is proud to announce that its NanoAnalysis Division has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation 2012.

From Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis 23 Apr 2012

New Graphene Technique for Electron Microscopy Studies of Nanocrystal Growth

A team of researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has devised a technique that allows the encapsulation of nanocrystal liquids between graphene layers, to take images of chemical reactions occurring in liquid media at an atomic-scale resolution using an electron microscope.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 21 Apr 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Ferroelectricity in Glycine Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

A team of multi-institutional researchers led by Andrei Kholkin from the University of Aveiro has for the first time experimentally demonstrated the existence of ferroelectricity in glycine, a basic amino acid, using piezoresponse force microscopy developed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

21 Apr 2012

New X-Ray Microscope Provides Nano-Scale Structural Details in 3D

A new full field transmission X-ray microscope (TXM), developed and installed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab), enables the Brookhaven Lab researchers to rapidly capture and integrate thousands of 2D images to create digital 3D constructs with high accuracy.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 20 Apr 2012

Researchers Explain Behavior of BSFO Films Using Electron Microscopy

A team of researchers, led by Albina Borisevich from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy, has proposed a new theory to elucidate the unusual properties of a material that find possible use in actuators and capacitors.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 17 Apr 2012

WITec Launch New Product Catalog

WITec has released a new product overview catalog highlighting the entire WITec portfolio.

From Oxford Instruments WITec 4 Apr 2012

WITec Paper Award Goes to Graphene Researchers

The winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 has been announced. This year the award goes to Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, Taisuke Ohta and Thomas E. Beechem both from the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for their paper: “Strain and charge carrier coupling in epitaxial graphene”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235422 (2011).

From Oxford Instruments WITec 4 Apr 2012

NANOSENSORS Unveils New Line of Wear Resistant, Highly Conductive AFM Probes

NANOSENSORS has unveiled the first two models of its new SPM probe line of highly conductive and wear resistant atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips.

From Nanosensors 4 Apr 2012

Carl Zeiss Launch FIB-SEM with Laser Ablation Capabilities

Carl Zeiss has launched the AURIGA® Laser, a new advanced system combining the specific advantages of the AURIGA® CrossBeam (FIB-SEM) workstation with the capabilities of a pulsed micro-focus laser for fast ablation of material.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 11 Mar 2012