Due to the nature of light, a traditional optical microscope can be employed to attain a maximum magnification of around 800–1000x. For further magnification, scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) can ...

Scanning probe microscopy images a sample by scanning a physical probe just above the surface. A variety of different probes and detection modalities can be used to generate either a topological map ...

Windows 2000 comes with a utility called Disk Probe that allows you to easily examine these files. Disk Probe is a combination file editor and disk editor. As a file editor, Disk Probe lets you make ...

It is essential to have the tools that enable the maker to see, control, and engineer at the atomic level, before making anything. Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is one such tool that can be employed ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

How it works: illustration of the quantum twisting microscope in action. Electrons tunnel from the probe (inverted pyramid at the top) to the sample (bottom) in several places at once (green vertical ...