FTIR microscopy offers a strong method for detecting and characterizing contaminants, crucial for ensuring product safety and ...

Brillouin spectroscopy and microscopy have rapidly emerged as indispensable tools to characterise the mechanical properties of materials and biological tissues in a non-contact, label-free manner. By ...

Not all defects are visible with the same microscope. Explore how resolution, contrast, and signal interpretation shape semiconductor failure investigations.

Since their inception, optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules have steadily expanded to an amazing variety of disciplines in natural sciences. Domains as varied as optical microscopy, ...

Figure 1: Revealing vibrational signals in the electron microscope. Figure 3: Profile showing the spatial variation of the vibrational signal. The vibrational signal was obtained by subtracting the ...

Auger electron spectroscopy is a well-established surface-sensitive technique. It has been mostly used for the identification of species on sample surfaces, especially to monitor the process of sample ...

Huge strides have been made over recent years concerning scanning electron microscopes (SEMs and EPMAs), especially when observing and chemically analyzing materials across various fields of interest, ...

Infrared STM in action. (Courtesy: Crommie Group, UC Berkeley and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Physicists in California have combined infrared spectroscopy ...