Sentences with phrase «of atomic force microscopes»

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For starters, researchers must first pull off the effect without the use of atomic force microscopes, which aren't a practical addition to disk drive technology.

To do this, they fixed individual noble gas atoms within a molecular network and determined the interactions with a single xenon atom that they had positioned at the tip of an atomic force microscope.

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.

Using the tip of an atomic force microscope, they placed single bromine atoms on a sodium chloride surface to construct the shape of the Swiss cross.

Previously, researchers have used either electron beam lithography or, more recently, the tiny styluslike arm of an atomic force microscope (AFM) to create nanometer - sized features on a surface.

Using a special kind of atomic force microscope to control the spacing of the surfaces, they found that this strange attraction kicked in at an even longer distance of up to two microns and that it was accompanied by the formation of a vapor bubble in between.

By placing a very sharp conductive needle, of an atomic force microscope (AFM), on top of a zeolite crystal, the researchers were able to measure the electrical conductivity in the molecule chains.

The tips (see image below) are comparable to the probes of an atomic force microscope and can be moved across magnetic elements of inorganic or biological materials with high precision.

In collaboration with colleagues from Berlin and Madrid, researchers at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have pulled up isolated molecular chains from a gold surface, using the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM).

When a magnetic field is switched on, electrons are unable to migrate from a conductive surface (blue) through chains of molecules encapsulated in a crystal to the tip of an atomic force microscope (grey).

The final result is an extremely fine diamond tip that resembles that of an atomic force microscope.

What the physicists discovered was surprising: although the uppermost layer of the surface always consisted purely of SiO2, the tip of the atomic force microscope experienced different frictional forces depending on the thickness of the silicon dioxide layer.

A graphen nanoribbon was anchored at the tip of a atomic force microscope and dragged over a gold surface.

By using the probe of an atomic force microscope to trigger a local chemical reaction, Jeffrey Mativetsky, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton University, and PhD student Austin Faucett showed that electrically conductive features as small as four nanometers can be patterned into individual graphene oxide sheets.

«Our model describes in detail the interaction between the tip of the atomic force microscope and the CDW,» explains Pellegrini.

Methods: In their work, El - Khoury and his colleagues employed a gold tip of an atomic force microscope to record chemical images (25 nm spatial resolution) of a silver surface coated with 4,4» - dimercaptostilbene.

«Using the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM), we have found that the mechanical force required to break the bond between fibrinogen and erythrocytes is higher in patients with chronic heart failure than in healthy subjects,» explains team leader Nuno C Santos from iMM and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon.

ORNL's instrument retains all of the advantages of an atomic force microscope while simultaneously offering the potential for discoveries through its high resolution and subsurface spectroscopic capabilities.

In the experiment, researchers coated the metallic particles with a layer of reactive molecules and focused the ALS - produced infrared light onto the tiny tip (25 nanometers in its diameter) of the atomic force microscope.

Prof. Gerber is also co-inventor of the atomic force microscope, which along with the scanning tunnelling microscope is widely considered to have catalysed modern - day nanotechnology.

It was during this period that he involved his IBM colleague Christoph Gerber and Stanford Professor Calvin Quate in realizing his idea of the atomic force microscope.

Adam Foster of Aalto University in Finland and colleagues have now used the CO-functionalized tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM) to discriminate between boron (B), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) atoms embedded at the centre of a GNR thanks to the differences in their van der Waals radii.

Not exact matches

Quantitative Defect Analysis of Ablator Capsule Surfaces Using a Leica Confocal Microscope and a High - Density Atomic Force Microscope

• In a magnetic force microscope, the tip senses changes in the magnetic structure of the surface at the atomic level.

An atomic force microscope has been used to examine the stiffness of cancer cells.

The researchers could consistently measure the conductivity of these gold tipped molecules by brushing them with an atomic force microscope, also gold capped.

This artist rendering is based on an image of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) taken with an atomic force microscope (AFM).

While examining a sample of tubes with an atomic force microscope, his colleagues saw something unusual — a few doughnuts — and asked Colbert to take a look.

Using an atomic force microscope (AFM), an instrument with a touch gentle enough not to disturb a busy molecule, Hansma's group took pictures of an enzyme, RNA polymerase, ratcheting one DNA strand through itself.

Today's best commercial atomic force microscopes have tips made of silicon or silicon nitride that run over the surface of a sample like the stylus of a record or CD player, recording all the bumps as they go along.

The new measuring method makes use of a modified Atomic Force Microscope: a tiny ball glued to the cantilever of the microscope will attract protein Microscope: a tiny ball glued to the cantilever of the microscope will attract protein microscope will attract protein molecules.

Key to the success of the oxygen experiments was a state - of - the - art atomic - force microscope, purchased by Prof. Diebold using proceeds of her 2014 Wittgensteinpreis Award.

When University of Aberdeen researchers encountered an undecipherable molecule from the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, IBM's fine - tuned atomic force microscope helped them complete the puzzle

Using a modified atomic force microscope, Leo Gross of IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues captured bonds in three different carbon molecules, including the flat form of hexabenzocoronene pictured above (Science, doi.org/jcr).

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

Working with staff scientists Andreas Scholl and Elke Arenholz at the ALS, they used a 5 - volt probe from an atomic force microscope to switch the polarization of the ferroelectric material up and down, creating a geometric pattern of concentric squares.

The single - atom tip of the noncontact atomic force microscope «feels» changes in the strength of electronic forces as it moves across the surface at a constant height.

This microscope, also called an atomic force microscope, probes the topography of the surface, like a record player «reads» a record's grooves.

Physicist Philip Kim of Columbia University began trying to flake off graphene layers in 2002 by dragging a tiny graphite rod with an atomic force microscope, which is like an exquisitely sensitive phonograph needle.

Now Peter Velikov and Siu - Tung Yau at the University of Alabama at Huntsville have used an atomic force microscope to take the first images of the birth of the seed crystals, a process called nucleation.

From photographs of movement that's too fast for the human eye to perceive, to atomic force microscope images of atomic bonds, pictures created by new technologies have often catalyzed scientific discovery.

«That let us make accurate comparisons when we tested the friction of these different samples with an atomic force microscope, an ultra-sensitive instrument that can measure nanonewton forces.»

The molecular bonds in a Pentacene molecule, by IBM Research (2009) Taken with an atomic force microscope, which grew out of the technologies pioneered by Bennig and Rohrer's STM, this is the first image ever taken that shows molecular bonds.

Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms.

The tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometer — a millionth of a millimeter.