Atomic force microscope makes single-electron current meter. And that is not all. Ebeling says that the parameters of this STM feedback can be adjusted to obtain atomic-scale images of the substrate ...

While sapphire and quartz are oxide crystals used in a wide range of industrial applications, the atomic-scale structures of these materials are not well understood. The major chemical components of ...

Atomic force microscopy is revealing molecular structures with startling clarity. ... Germany, turned to a surprising solution: the quartz tuning forks with which modern clocks keep time.

In a study recently published in the journal Nanoscale, researchers from Kanazawa University and AGC Inc. use three-dimensional atomic force microscopy to study the hydrated form and structure of ...

Blacksburg, Va., March 23, 2003 -- Tracy L. Cail, a Ph.D. student in geological sciences at Virginia Tech, is developing a new method for calculating sticking efficiency at the nanoscale with the ...

Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also known as alumina, corundum, sapphire, or ruby, is one of the best insulators used in a wide ...

Lightning Strikes Can Change Rocks’ Atomic ... slices of the fulgurites under a powerful microscope, ... a thin layer of what were once quartz crystals had melted and deformed so much that ...

Lightning reshapes rocks at the atomic level Date: August 5, 2015 Source: University of Pennsylvania Summary: A lightning strike can reshape a mineral's crystal structure, according to a new study.