In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

A new method will enable researchers to directly observe and capture atomic motions at surfaces and interfaces in real time. One of the most enduring "Holy Grail" experiments in science has been ...

Michigan Tech’s new Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope lets researchers zoom in to understand the big picture at the atomic scale. Housed in a specially constructed brick building at the south ...

More than 400 years have already passed since human beings invented the microscope, a technique for observing the microscopic world. The exploration of microscopic world using microscopes has been the ...

An atomic force microscope can be used as a single-electron current meter, according to new experiments by researchers at IBM. The technique, which measures the energy levels of single molecules on ...

Developed in the 1980s, AFM uses a sharp tip on a cantilever which reads across a surface. It can be thought of as a sort of phonograph, capable of sensing the smallest variations on the surface of a ...