Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, ...

Key TakeawaysBerkeley Lab scientists developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously ...

Virtual apertures let researchers isolate and solve atomic structures from individual nanocrystals embedded in dense clusters, providing valuable new data for energy and pharmaceutical applications.

FTIR microscopy offers a strong method for detecting and characterizing contaminants, crucial for ensuring product safety and ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

TPU geologists, together with their foreign colleagues, completed an experiment in the natural conditions of the Vasyugan swamp. The results showed that peat bogs accelerate diagenesis processes, the ...

When contamination defects surface in advanced nodes, the root cause often spans tools, materials, and handling. This piece outlines how defect mapping, TEM, and SPC data converge to prove causation.

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

Cornell researchers have used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect, for the first time, the atomic-scale defects in computer chips that can sabotage their performance. The imaging method, which was ...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) allow researchers at the forefront of energy technology to study next-generation ...

A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of ...

Multiphoton microscopy is used in biomedical research to study cells and tissues. Today, so-called two-photon microscopy is used to study processes within cells, but the technique has limitations in ...