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Nanopositioning Stages Now With Longer Travel Ranges for Microscopy, Nanometrology and Interferometry

PI, a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion-control equipment semiconductor and photonics applications, has extended its PIHera® family of flexure-guided piezo nanopositioning stages, now offering record travel ranges to 1.8 mm.

28 Feb 2008

Harvard Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Microfabricated Optical Tweezer

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrated a new type of optical tweezer with the potential to make biological and microfluidic force measurements in integrated systems such as microfluidic chips. The tweezer, consisting of a Fresnel Zone Plate microfabricated on a glass slide, has the ability to trap particles without the need for high performance objective lenses.

26 Feb 2008

Device for Measuring Bonding Forces in Molecules

When chemists want to measure the bonding forces in molecules or other most minuscule forces very accurately, they have to calibrate their measuring instruments (for example the cantilevers, i.e. the measuring tips, of s...

25 Feb 2008

Force Needed to Move Individual Atoms Measured by IBM Scientists

IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides important...

22 Feb 2008

New Generation Electron Microscope Takes Colour Images With Each Chemical Shown in a Different Colour

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to on...

22 Feb 2008

Nanoscience Research Center Dedicated at University of Oregon

University of Oregon students crossing a grassy oval in the Lorry I. Lokey Science Complex this spring will be surprised to learn that, under their feet, researchers are operating millions of dollars worth of delicate hi...

20 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Use Astronomy Technique to Make Better Images of Nanoparticles

While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nano-sized probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University made an interesting observation....

20 Feb 2008

X-ray Technique Images Structures and Features Inside Nanoparticles and Biological Cells

X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray techni...

20 Feb 2008

Nanoscience Instruments has Launched a New Line of Silicon Nitride Probes for Atomic Force Microscopes

HYDRA series probes feature a unique, patent-pending design that combines low stress, silicon-nitride cantilevers with sharp Silicon tips in a variety of spring constants, they are ideal for applications ranging from highly sensitive force curve measurements to soft contact mode and gentle fluid tapping mode experiments.

14 Feb 2008

Research Breakthrough Could Lead to Superconducting Materials that Work at Room Temperature

MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero. If superco...

13 Feb 2008

Microscopy News

Nanopositioning Stages Now With Longer Travel Ranges for Microscopy, Nanometrology and Interferometry

Harvard Researchers Demonstrate New Type of Microfabricated Optical Tweezer

Device for Measuring Bonding Forces in Molecules

Force Needed to Move Individual Atoms Measured by IBM Scientists

New Generation Electron Microscope Takes Colour Images With Each Chemical Shown in a Different Colour

Nanoscience Research Center Dedicated at University of Oregon

Nanotechnology Researchers Use Astronomy Technique to Make Better Images of Nanoparticles

X-ray Technique Images Structures and Features Inside Nanoparticles and Biological Cells

Nanoscience Instruments has Launched a New Line of Silicon Nitride Probes for Atomic Force Microscopes

Research Breakthrough Could Lead to Superconducting Materials that Work at Room Temperature

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