PFM measures the dynamic, electromechanical response when a voltage is applied to
a scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip in mechanical contact with the sample's surface.
His «nanotomography» method turns
a scanning probe microscope on successive layers of a material to build up three - dimensional images of its innards at the nanometer scale.
The IBM team turned to
a scanning probe microscope, which has a needle - sharp tip that «feels» a material's shape.
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 researchers then used a dynamic force -
scanning probe microscope for single - molecule force spectroscopy as well as antibody - recognition force microscopy (Ig - RFM) to map the locations of MtrC and OmcA on the surface of live Shewanella cells.
One path to advanced nanotechnologies begins with using
scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to make atomically precise surface modifications — see, for example p. xii of Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap.
His research over the last 25 years has focused on the development and application of new
scanning probe microscopes, including the invention of two new types of high - speed AFM and the use of nanotools controlled by holographic optical tweezers to act as a new type of AFM probe.
Since the development of new nanoscale measurement methods is also a high priority, we are developing multi-probe
scanning probe microscopes and other cutting - edge instruments.
nanoManipulator: uses virtual reality (VR) goggles and a force feedback probe as an interface to
a scanning probe microscope, providing researchers with a new way to interact with the atomic world.
Integrating a traditional optical microscope with an excellent laser scanning microscope (LSM) and a nanometric - scale
scanning probe microscope (SPM), the OLYMPUS LEXT OLS4500 is compatible with a wide range of samples, providing a total observation / measurement solution for a new era.
Not exact matches
• The
scanning tunnelling
microscope measures changes in electrical current between the
probe tip and the atoms on a sample surface.
Vortices in superconductors can be
probed with a
scanning tunneling
microscope.
Juan Carlos Cuevas at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain and his colleagues modified a
scanning tunnelling
microscope — which allows the manipulation and imaging of atoms — to trap a ring of benzene between the
probing tip of the
microscope and a flat gold surface.
The
probe of an atomic force
microscope (AFM)
scans a surface to reveal details at a resolution 1,000 times greater than that of an optical
microscope.
The atomic force
microscope (AFM) has largely been a physicists» tool,
scanning atomic landscapes with its ultrafine
probe.
Data is read by
scanning gaps between atoms and the
microscope's
probe.
The
probe of a
scanning tunneling
microscope has a tip, sharpened to only a few atoms, that hovers several angstroms above the surface to be imaged.
Samus Davis of the University of California, Berkeley, together with Shin - ichi Uchida of the University of Tokyo and colleagues used a
scanning tunneling
microscope to
probe the behavior of Bi-2212, a high - Tc superconductor that belongs to a class of compounds known as BSCCOs.
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.
However, researchers were able to both culture samples from the medical equipment and see it on the surface of temperature
probes using a
scanning electron
microscope.
Those
probes can image a surface at the atomic level by detecting the tunneling of electrons from the surface across a small gap to the
microscope's tiny
scanning tip.
A magnetized
scanning tunneling
microscope tip was used to
probe the spin property of the quantum wave function of the Majorana fermion at the end of a chain of iron atoms on the surface of a superconductor made of lead.
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.
WITec is the leading German manufacturer of confocal and
scanning - probe microscopes for Raman, Atomic Force, and Scanning Near - Field Optical Mic
scanning -
probe microscopes for Raman, Atomic Force, and
Scanning Near - Field Optical Mic
Scanning Near - Field Optical Microscopy.
UltraSPX - 200 / 220 - Ultra-high Resolution Analytical
Scanning -
Probe X-ray
Microscope for Synchrotron Facilities.
In this case, tungsten
probes were attached to a
scanning tunneling
microscope.