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Taking STM images 100 times faster

Very few of you have used a scanning tunneling microscope STM, an essential tool to study nanoscience. And you might think that it's as easy to take a picture of an atom with an STM as it is to take a shot with your digital camera. In fact, the imaging...

Tags: Radio, Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-11

The nanopowers of spinach

Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope STM to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch...

Tags: conformation, Ohio University, molecule, scanning tunneling microscope

Blog posts 2006-09-09

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Quantum holographic storage: it works!

Quantum holographic storage: it works!Star Wars Geeks building a HolocronA new attempt. The old way used different colored lasers to store information in a artificial crystal. but I think this one will work better as long as the material stays stable.the crystal idea was a cube and was multi-layered...

Tags: holographic storage, storage, Quantum Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Quantum holographic storage: it works!

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single electron. Moreover, the technique allows holograms to be "stacked" in 3 dimensions....

Tags: Electron, Hologram, Quantum Corp., Beam, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-02-03

What is nanopantography?

If you don't know the answer, I cannot blame you. After all, a query for 'nanopantography' on Google returns only 43 results as I'm typing this. But researchers from the University of Houston say that nanopantography can create billions of nanotech devices in hours. The idea behind the technology is...

Tags: Technique, Ion, University Of Houston, Wafer, Nanotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-05

IBM's Art of Invention

The 'Art of Invention' is the name of an exhibit which opened last week at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. This exhibit, which will last one year, is featuring 70 works of art created through inventions, patents and trademarks. Two of these works have been provided...

Tags: Exhibit, Electron, Corral, Image, IBM Corp., Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.

Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.

Image galleries 2006-07-20

Bacteria can build nanowires

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have discovered that under certain conditions, some very common bacteria can form nanowires. These bacteria were able to produce nanowires as small as 10 nanometers in diameter, but which can reach hundreds of microns in length. What is interesting here is that...

Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, bacteria

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.

Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.

Image galleries 2006-05-23

Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab

Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.

Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.

Image galleries 2006-05-23