Quantum simulations are pushing physicists to rethink what it means for an atom to move. In new work on a quantum computer, ...

A new type of scanning transmission electron microscope is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms and see how those atoms bond to one another.

A beam of electrons can “kick” single atoms out of a two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride. The vacancy is visible as a triangular dark spot at the top left. (Courtesy: Toma Susi / ...

Armed with a state-of-the-art microscope, researchers in California have recorded the first videos that capture the dynamics of individual carbon atoms in a sheet of graphene—a one-atom-thick layer of ...

A new, somewhat counterintuitive, approach to using the electron microscope can detect magnetic signals by introducing aberrations. The aberrated probe results in imaging and spectra with lower ...

In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

Physicists in the US claim to have used a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to see a single hydrogen atom – the first time that a TEM has been used to image such a light atom. The breakthrough ...

A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures that for first-time can see individual atoms in a protein. By achieving atomic ...

A new electron microscope developed in the United States provides scientists with full colour images that identify individual atoms and the ways they bond. "The current generation of microscopes can ...