By adapting their quantum twisting microscope to operate at cryogenic temperatures, researchers have made the first ...

Physicists have used a novel technique to observe individual atoms interacting in free space for the first time ever. The new ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have created a powerful new microscope that allows them to watch the tiniest ...

Weizmann Institute scientists introduce a powerful tool to explore quantum phenomena — the cryogenic Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM). Using this pioneering instrument, researchers have observed — ...

A silver single-atom chain demonstrates atomic-scale strain sensing and piezoresistive effects, advancing nanotechnology and ...

"With this microscope, we hope the scientific community ... Related: Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors To create an ...

The power of this technique is that it is possible to determine local physical properties directly from measurements of shifts of the individual atom positions. The conventional concept of image ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...