A recent breakthrough is the use of artificial intelligence (AI), which learns how to manipulate atoms to improve a material’s properties.

Researchers hit record storage density by writing bits with single atoms New system has a density of 500 terabits per square inch.

ChemHacker has posted schematics and code for a scanning tunneling microscope. [Sacha De’Angeli] finalized the proof-of-concept design for version 0.1 and released all of the information under ...

Recent science magazine covers have taken to displaying dazzling images of the surfaces of metals and semiconductors. These come from scanning tunneling microscopes, which let scientists look at ...

Scientists use scanning tunneling microscopy to understand how a material's electronic or magnetic properties relate to its structure on the atomic scale. When using this technique, however, they ...

This was transformed some 40 years ago with the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, which earned its developers the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Structural isomerization of individual molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope probe Technique may be applicable to magnetic molecules and quantum materials syntheses Date: February 6 ...

In 1990, scientists at IBM Corp.'s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., used the minute tungsten probe of a scanning tunneling microscope to move atoms of xenon around on a nickel surface, ...

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Method Reveals Subsurface Atomic Structure A modified scanning tunneling microscopy method can now reveal sub-surface structural and magnetic information for the first ...

New research shows that a scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes.