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The transmission X-ray microscope (TXM) on the Anatomix beamline welcomed its first nano-tomography users in 2019. The instrument is based on diffractive optics and works in the range of energies from 7 keV to 21 keV. A spatial resolution…
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Recently, heat manipulation has gained the attention of scientific community due to its several applications. In this letter, based on transformation thermodynamic (TT) methodology, a novel material, which is called thermal-null medium…
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We describe a compact ultra-high vacuum (UHV) scanning tunneling microscope (STM) system that does not need any external supply of cooling liquids. It achieves temperatures down to 1.5 K and a z-noise down to 300 fmRMS for the frequency…
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