A team at Tohoku University have perfected a new heat treatment technique with rapid heating and asymmetrical cooling processes in metallic glass. This technique enabled the team to induce a gradient ...

The nanosciences were revolutionized by the invention of atomic force microscopy 1, which enabled the first perceptions of the nanoworld by measuring the proximity forces exerted by a sample on a ...

The force field gradients are, thus, computed in quasi real-time (approximately 10 measurements per second), which enables extensive exploration of the sample under study. One of these features is the ...

Built with a very large aspect ratio (up to 5000) with a diameter and length of around 150 nm/100 μm, respectively, and effective masses that fall in the picogram range, suspended nanowires are the ...