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When order gives way to chaos: the turbulent birth of magnetic nanovortices
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.
May 262 min read


New electron microscopy technique reveals atomic structures from nanocrystals once considered unsolvable
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, a breakthrough that could transform how researchers study materials too small or imperfect for conventional crystallography.
Crystalline materials have enabled advances in computing, communications, energy technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Many of these materials’ unique proper
Mar 54 min read


Image scanning microscopy based on multifocal metalens for sub-diffraction-limited imaging of brain organoids
In a new paper published in Light: Science & Applications, a research team led by Professor Inki Kim at the BioNanoPhotonics Laboratory in the Department of Biophysics, Institute of Quantum Biophysics, Sungkyunkwan University, developed a multifocal metalens based on a novel hybrid multiplexing approach to implement ISM and successfully captured super-resolution images of neuronal structures in brain organoids. The proposed hybrid multiplexing method combines two conventional
Nov 26, 20253 min read


Nanoscale under gigapressure
Sometimes a change of perspective can make a world of difference. A team of scientists from PETRA III, Centre for X-ray and Nanoscience (CXNS) at DESY, and MAX IV has rearranged the method in which one can use an X-ray beam to image a sample without using high-quality lenses. The method, called ptychography, has been widely used at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers to analyse the inner workings of materials quickly enough while avoiding major damage to the sample by the X
Nov 4, 20253 min read


New technique boosts electron microscope’s clarity
A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved a major breakthrough in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented clarity using lower-cost and lower-energy microscopes than ever before. Led by Arthur Blackburn, co-director of UVic’s Advanced Microscopy Facility, the team developed a novel imaging technique that allowed them to achieve sub-Ångström resolution (less than one ten-billionth of a
Oct 17, 20252 min read


New method instantly characterizes thousands of molecules
The new method, inspired by an imaging technique that has been around for 35 years, takes ultraprecise measurements of a molecule’s unique light-emission signature at the scale of a billionth of a second. It uses a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) camera made up of close to a million tiny sensors that can each detect aphoton. The data are analyzed to determine a molecule’s fluorescence lifetime – or the extremely short delay between an excitation laser pulse and the fluor
Aug 6, 20253 min read
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