By the late 1800s, the scientific world was buzzing with questions about electricity and light. Several researchers were ...

Much like the traditional scanning electron microscope (SEM), the field emission scanning electron microscope uses electrons to illuminate a sample, instead of visible light as is used in optical ...

Unlike Scanning Electron Microscopy that bounces electrons off the surface of a sample to produce an image, Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs) shoot the electrons completely through the sample.

It may not have won an Oscar, but the tiny electron has finally made its film debut. A new video shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is ...

Engineers have created the first working quantum bit based on a single atom in silicon, opening the way to ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future. Scientists were able to both read and write ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists have discovered a way to play with matter on a subatomic scale, reaching into atoms to ...

Since the FE-SEM is in effect an electrical circuit, the specimen must be conductive. In the tungsten source SEM, any nonconductive specimen is coated with a very thin layer of conductive material in ...