China has taken a critical step forward in high-precision timekeeping by mass-producing a fingernail-sized chip-scale atomic ...

China has taken a significant step in high-precision timekeeping by mass-producing a fingernail-sized chip-scale atomic clock ...

The heart of a minuscule atomic clock—believed to be 100 times smaller than any other atomic clock—has been demonstrated by scientists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

Research is paving the way for advanced diamond-based technologies in electronics and quantum computing. Imagine placing an object under a microscope and pressing a button to rearrange the surface ...

Vincenzo is an associate professor and the head of the Sustainable Optoelectronics Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research focuses on printable semiconductors and their ...

Engineers of defense systems understand better than most that toughness isn’t an intrinsic property but an engineered one, and this engineering increasingly begins at the atomic scale. Atomic-level ...

“To improve transistor density and electronic performance, next-generation semiconductor devices are adopting three-dimensional architectures and feature sizes down to the few-nm regime, which require ...

“Next-generation semiconductor devices are adopting three-dimensional (3D) architectures with feature sizes in the few-nanometer regime, creating a need for atomic-scale metrology to identify and ...