If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

When dust sticks to a surface or a lizard sits on a ceiling, it is due to "nature's invisible glue." Researchers at Chalmers ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Chalmers researchers have developed a simple, light-based platform to study the mysterious “invisible glue” that binds materials at the nanoscale. Gold flakes floating in salt water reveal how quantum ...

A new method using gold flakes, salt water, and light reveals the tiny forces that bind matter and drive self-assembly, ...

Using light to measure ever-smaller objects has been central to progress in many scientific disciplines for centuries. As far back as 1873, German physicist Ernst Abbe proved that light diffraction ...

Fluorescence microscopy reveals cellular morphology and dynamics in remarkable detail, but achieving clear visualization at fast acquisition rates remains a challenge. A fundamental trade-off between ...

In the lab at Chalmers, doctoral student Michaela Hošková shows a glass container filled with millions of micrometre-sized gold flakes in a salt solution. Using a pipette, she picks up a drop of the ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have achieved a significant breakthrough by employing scatterometry, a technique ...

Dublin, Sept. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "North America Optical Microscopes Market to 2027 - Regional Analysis and Forecasts by Product, by End User, and Country" report has been added to ...