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Trapped Rainbow of Light May Find Application in On-Chip Spectroscopy

Over the past decade, scientists have succeeded in slowing pulses of light down to zero speed by letting separate frequency components of the pulse conspire in such a way that a receptive medium through which the pulse is passing can host the information stored in the pulse but not actually absorb the pulse's energy.

15 Jul 2010

Electron Flow in Unusual Materials Tracked Using Microscopy Technique

On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists has found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles of imperfect microsurfaces, sometimes moving straight through barriers.

15 Jul 2010

Scanning Tunneling Microscope Helps to Understand Non-Superconducting Electronic Phase

Scientists have been trying for some 20 years to understand why the low temperature at which copper-oxide superconductors carry current with no resistance can't be increased to be closer to room temperature.

15 Jul 2010

Using Optical Microscopy to Image Objects with Resolutions as Small as 0.5 Nanometers

Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Steven Chu led the development of a technique that enables the use of optical microscopy to image objects or the distance between them with resolutions as small as 0.5 nanometers.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 14 Jul 2010

Enhanced Resolution in Low kv Region with New Electron Source Technology

Today, Carl Zeiss introduces EVO® HD, its latest innovation in the conventional Scanning Electron Microscopy (C-SEM) market segment. Delivering much higher resolution at low acceleration voltages compared to present conventional SEM, the EVO® HD introduces High Definition to electron microscopy.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 14 Jul 2010