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This paper presents for the first time an innovative instrument called an inverted scanning microwave microscope (iSMM), which is capable of noninvasive and label-free imaging and characterization of intracellular structures of a live cell…

The invention of scanning probe microscopy has revolutionized the way electronic phenomena are visualized. While present-day probes can access a variety of electronic properties at a single location in space, a scanning microscope that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Alon Inbar , John Birkbeck , Jiewen Xiao , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Binghai Yan , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shahal Ilani

Since the initial patent in 2001, the Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) community has been striving to develop an MPI scanner suitable for human applications. Numerous contributions from different research fields, regarding tracer…

Research in semiconductor physics has advanced to the study of two-dimensional (2D) materials where the surface controls electronic transport. A scanning probe microscope (SPM) is an ideal tool to image electronic motion in these devices by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Sagar Bhandari , Robert M. Westervelt

Ultracold atoms are crucial for unlocking truly precise and accurate quantum metrology, and provide an essential platform for quantum computing, communication and memories. One of the largest ongoing challenges is the miniaturization of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-06 Alan Bregazzi , James P. McGilligan , Paul F. Griffin , Erling Riis , Aidan S. Arnold

We report a high-resolution microscope system for imaging ultracold ytterbium atoms trapped in a two-dimensional optical lattice. By using the ultraviolet strong transition combined with a solid immersion lens and high-resolution optics,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Miranda , Ryotaro Inoue , Yuki Okuyama , Akimasa Nakamoto , Mikio Kozuma

We demonstrate a dynamic scanning capacitance microscope (DSCM) that operates at large bandwidths, cryogenic temperatures and high magnetic fields. The setup is based on a non-contact atomic force microscope (AFM) with a quartz tuning fork…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-03-12 A. Baumgartner , M. E. Suddards , C. J. Mellor

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy has become a critical tool in structural biology over the last decade, able to achieve atomic scale resolution in three dimensional models from hundreds of thousands of (noisy) two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Aaditya V. Rangan , Leslie Greengard

Single atom/molecule manipulation with a scanning-tunneling-microscope (STM) tip is an innovative experimental technique of nanoscience. Using STM-tip as an engineering or analytical tool, artificial atomic-scale structures can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Saw-Wai Hla

We propose a new technique for the detection of single atoms in ultracold quantum gases. The technique is based on scanning electron microscopy and employs the electron impact ionization of trapped atoms with a focussed electron probe.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Gericke , C. Utfeld , N. Hommerstad , H. Ott

Certifying quantum entanglement is a critical step towards realizing quantum-coherent applications of surface spin systems. In this work, we show that entanglement can be unambiguously shown in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rik Broekhoven , Curie Lee , Soo-hyon Phark , Sander Otte , Christoph Wolf

Integration of electron spin resonance (ESR) in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has enabled an all-electrical control of atomic and molecular spins on solid surfaces with atomic-scale precision and energy resolution beyond thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Deung-Jang Choi , Soo-hyon Phark , Andreas J. Heinrich , Nicolás Lorente

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe out to high redshift. Common mm/sub-mm emission lines are…

Laser cooled atoms are central to modern precision measurements. They are also increasingly important as an enabling technology for experimental cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum information processing and matter wave interferometry.…

The concept of compressive sensing was recently proposed to significantly reduce the electron dose in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) while still maintaining the main features in the image. Here, an experimental setup based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-23 Armand Béché , Bart Goris , Bert Freitag , Jo Verbeeck

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a powerful technique for mapping nanoscale surface properties through tip-sample interactions. Thermal scanning-probe lithography (tSPL) is an advanced SPM variant that uses a silicon tip on a heated…

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has been extensively applied to probe interfacial water in many interdisciplinary fields but the disturbance of the probes on the hydrogen-bonding structure of water has remained an intractable problem. Here…

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful technique for imaging atomic structure and inferring information on local elemental composition, chemical bonding, and electronic excitations. However, traditional methods of visual…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-21 Qiang Zou , Basu Dev Oli , Huimin Zhang , Joseph Benigno , Xin Li , Lian Li

Investigation of transport properties is fundamental for characterizing electronic properties and phase transitions. However, most of the transport measurements on conductive layers have been performed at macroscopic scales, and thus the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Masayuki Hamada , Masahiro Haze , Junya Okazaki , Yukio Hasegawa

Photonic sintering (PS) offers an ultra-fast, contact-free alternative to conventional sintering and has demonstrated its potential for enhancing the sinterability of acceptor-doped barium zirconate (BZY) ceramics. However, a central…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 Junlong Ma , Yangyiwei Yang , Julian N. Ebert , Wolfgang Rheinheimer , Bai-Xiang Xu