Sentences with phrase «in scanning electron microscopes»

Simulations (colored images) of this process showed the formation of tiny pores, which was in agreement with the structure (grayscale image) observed in a scanning electron microscope.

The ridges cut into a new device's crystal (seen here in a scanning electron microscope image) collectively act as a pair of mirrors.

Yarn made of niobium nanowires, seen here in a scanning electron microscope image (background), can be used to make very efficient supercapacitors, MIT researchers have found.

DEEP DEVELOPMENT Diamonds (dark grey) begin to form from minerals containing iron and magnesium (white) and from carbon - oxygen compounds called carbonates (light grey) in a scanning electron microscope image.

The sand flea Tunga penetrans, here in a scanning electron microscope several days after penetrating the skin.

In these scanning electron microscope images, microscopic differences in filaments in black feathers of three bird of paradise species and one close relative, the lesser melampitta (Melampitta lugubris), become clear.

The work was done using tools developed in Zhu's group that enabled the team to conduct experiments on nanowires while they were in a scanning electron microscope.

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A scanning electron microscope survey was initiated to determine if the previously reported findings of «dinosaurian soft tissues» could be identified in situ within the bones.

The researchers used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected gold nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C while imaging them with atomic resolution.

As an IIE - SRF fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Al - Handal is again able to use his expertise in taxonomy of marine diatoms, a type of microalgae, with the added advantage of direct access to a scanning electron microscope, which he didn't have in Iraq.

The atomic seams are so tight, in fact, that when they looked up close using scanning electron microscopes, they saw that the larger of the two materials puckers a little around the joint.

Then in December 1993, he and Eric Erbe, a colleague at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Electron Microscopy Unit in Beltsville, Maryland, started experimenting with a newly configured low - temperature scanning electron micElectron Microscopy Unit in Beltsville, Maryland, started experimenting with a newly configured low - temperature scanning electron micelectron microscope.

a) Gold nanoparticle catalyst (Au / HAP - NC), b) Images of gold nanoparticles (black dot in red circle) through Transmission Electron Microscope, c) Annular Dark Field of gold nanoparticles through Scanning Electron Microscope.

He says it has taken this long to unlock the potential of NCC because the technology to explore its properties, such as electron scanning microscopes, only emerged in the last decade or so.

Stamets learned to run the school's scanning electron microscope — a rarity in the 1970s — and was soon photographing the cell structures of mushrooms, mycelia and spores for scientists nationwide.

Using a scanning transmission electron microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, Miao and his colleagues analyzed a small piece of tungsten, an element used in incandescent light bulbs.

This is a scanning electron microscope image of the head of «Dark - fly,» a Drosophila melanogaster line reared for 1,400 generations in a dark environment.

To test this idea, Szibor's graduate student, Christoph Schubert, tracked pollen counts in his own nose for a year using what he termed a «handkerchief test» — after blowing his nose, he would identify the types of pollen in the mucus using light and scanning electron microscopes.

Using a scanning electron microscope, Schultz found signs of prostate cancer in the prince's skeleton.

He examined the tissue with a scanning electron microscope and rinsed it with antibodies that fluoresce in the presence of the bacteria that cause syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

These scanning electron microscope images of coccolithophorids were all taken by Markus Geisen of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Lithium batteries can't survive immersion, and saltwater corrodes electronics, but forensics experts can tease apart microchips and, if necessary, use scanning electron microscopes to probe the data stored in components like solid state memory chips.

Photomicrograph of the microscopic blood vessels that shuttle oxygen and nutrients to neurons in the brain, obtained with a scanning electron microscope.

Graphene's carbon atoms, depicted as bright blobs in this scanning transmission electron microscope image, form a chicken wire pattern.

Using one of the world's most powerful soft X-ray microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.

Magnification by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) showed that the high performance of the conductor was due to the self - formation of silver (Ag) nanoparticles — one - thousandth the size of the Ag flakes and dispersed uniformly between the flakes in the fluorine rubber — after the conductive composite paste was printed and heated.

Matthew Shawkey at the University of Akron in Ohio and colleagues trained a scanning electron microscope on the fossil's feathers and found tiny structures called melanosomes, which contained dark pigment.

Scientists have to use a scanning electron microscope, which must peer at objects in a vacuum because air molecules absorb the electrons that the microscope depends on to take the picture.

Biomechanics expert Andrew Martin and colleagues at the Institute for Technical Zoology and Bionics in Bremen, Germany, used a scanning electron microscope to look at the feet of a small jumping spider (Evarcha arcuata).

A team led by Jian Zi of Fudan University in Shanghai examined peacock tail feathers using both an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope.

By using an atomic - resolution aberration - corrected (scanning) transmission electron microscope in combination with micromagnetic simulations the authors could reveal for the first time the atomic structure of the single phases present and establish a direct correlation to the macroscopic magnetic properties.

Drivers will use electrons from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to help jolt their molecules along, typically by just 0.3 nano - metres each time — making 100 nanometres «a pretty long distance», notes physicist Leonhard Grill of the University of Graz, Austria, who co-leads a US — Austrian team in the race.

Viewed up - close under a scanning electron microscope, size changes in these algae preserved a signal of the level of salinity in the surface water of the Aegean during their lifetime.

A closer look with a scanning electron microscope revealed that crystal - bearing blood cells were clustered around crystals secreted onto the new shell bits, as they report in the 9 April issue of Science.

To verify these results, researchers in Ozcan's lab used other imaging devices, including a scanning electron microscope and a photon - counting confocal microscope.

His team uses a scanning electron microscope to take highly detailed pictures of items, x-ray microanalysis to determine the elements in the sample and infrared microscopy to identify polymers.

This is a colorized scanning electron microscope image of the new species from Los Angeles named in honor of the teacher that discovered it on a class field trip, Exosphaeroma pentcheffi.

Brookhaven Lab is home to one of only a few Scanning Transmision Electron Microscope (STEM) machines in the world and one of the few that can image single heavy atoms.

Ernst Ruska, Fritz - Haber - Institut der Max - Planck - Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope.

A scanning electron microscope survey was initiated to determine if the previously reported findings of «dinosaurian soft tissues» could be identified in situ within the bones.

The group has developed liquid - helium cooled scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) that can image electron motion through a two dimensional electron gas, in GaAs / AlGaAs and graphene / hBN layered structures.

The device is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, works with many scientific instruments including time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometers and scanning electron microscopes.

Druckenmiller houses a specialized laser scanning confocal microscope (the only one of its kind in the state of Maine), as well as a scanning electron microscope and a number of conventional fluorescent microscopes, all of research quality.

Then, experimentalists Peter Sprau and Andrey Kostin (both of Brookhaven Lab and Cornell) used a scanning tunneling microscope at the Center for Emergent Superconductivity - a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at Brookhaven Lab - to measure the energy and momentum of electrons in iron - selenide samples that were synthesized by Anna Bohmer and Paul Canfield at DOE's Ames Laboratory.

Advanced aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes in UK facility provide atomically precise characterization of a variety of materials to guide R&D in alloys, drug delivery, lasers and other areas.

A team led by Robert Weatherup of the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US obtained their videos using a specifically modified scanning electron microscope (SEM).

The ORNL study published in the journal Small demonstrates how scanning transmission electron microscopes, normally used as imaging tools, are also capable of precision sculpting of nanometer - sized 3 - D features in complex oxide materials.

His main areas of interest and expertise have been in the research and development of scanning electron microscopes, electron beams as applied to semiconductor analysis and fabrication, and basic science and engineering relating to these subjects.

Eigler's breakthrough was made possible thanks to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981, a device that made possible the imaging of atoms by measuring changes in the way electrons hop between a sharp probe and a specimen, as the probe shifts position.

This was 5 years (to the month) after the precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), had first been successfully tested at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory by Binnig and the late Heinrich Rohrer, and 7 months before Binnig and Rohrer were awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the design of the STM (the prize was shared with Ernst Ruska, the inventor of the electron microscope).