Nanoscale tunneling microscopy goes contact-free
MSU joins an international research team to create a new type of ‘nanoscopy’ to characterize interesting materials like never before
A new microscopy technique lets researchers characterize materials with incredible precision while keeping its distance at least from a nanoscopic perspective.
Physicists from the University of Regensburg in Germany, the University of Manchester in England and Michigan State University developed the technique that enables observations at incredibly small sizes over ultrashort time scales. The invention, which could be used to investigate a variety of materials used in nanoscale science and engineering, was described May 13 in the journal Nature Photonics.