(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at China's University of Science and Technology has succeeded in developing a chemical mapping technique capable of revealing the constituent atoms of a ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling ...

Infrared STM in action. (Courtesy: Crommie Group, UC Berkeley and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Physicists in California have combined infrared spectroscopy ...

BERKELEY, CA — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning ...

In the decade since their discovery at Drexel University, the family of two-dimensional materials called MXenes has shown a great deal of promise for applications ranging from water desalination and ...

A new technique that combines the chemical sensitivity of optical vibronic spectroscopy with the atomic resolution of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has been developed by Guillaume Schull and ...

Vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG) is a nonlinear spectroscopic method widely used to investigate the molecular structure and dynamics of surface systems. However, in far-field observations, ...

Nonlinear optics describes the regime in which the response of a material to an applied electromagnetic field depends nonlinearly on the field amplitude. Whereas in linear optics the induced ...

Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STMs) are amazing tools which can manipulate singular atoms, but they cannot characterize these atoms as they act only on the outer electron shell. Meanwhile X-ray ...

The search for topological states of matter has recently generated a flurry of broad activity in the field of superconductivity (for several paradigmatic directions ...