A world first at the microscopic scale: Metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own

Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any ...
AZoOptics

The Role of Microscopy in Semiconductor Failure Analysis

Not all defects are visible with the same microscope. Explore how resolution, contrast, and signal interpretation shape semiconductor failure investigations.
Nanowerk

AI-generated electron microscope images speed atomic scale materials research

A new AI model generates realistic synthetic microscope images of atoms, providing scientists with reliable training data to accelerate materials research and atomic scale analysis. (Nanowerk ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Research Bits: Mar. 3

The ‘Tapping Mode SQUID-on-Tip’ (TM-SOT) microscope enables multimodal imaging to be performed extremely close to the sample surface using tapping mode feedback. This allows for stability during ...
The Scientist

Scanning Microscopes Bring Imaging To The Atomic Scale

Since the first transmission electron microscope was sold in 1935, microscopes that use electrons--rather than light waves--to image objects have brought into focus levels of detail that were ...
Nanowerk

AI toolkit turns microscopy images into quantitative microstructure data

An AI-powered toolkit automatically extracts and quantifies microstructural features from microscopy images, accelerating ...
William & Mary

Art students learn to see scale through makerspace microscope

William & Mary art students studying scale got to see every aspect of tiny objects writ large as they learned to use the scanning electron microscope in the Small Hall Makerspace. The idea was to ...