Sunday, 27 January 2019

Use a microscope as a shovel? Researchers dig it

Using a familiar tool in a way it was never intended to be used opens up a whole new method to explore materials, report researchers. They used the tip of an atomic force microscope as a chisel, and found it could map the electric interior of a film of bismuth ferrite in great detail as it excavated. The new technique could open up new discoveries in a broad range of stuffs.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190125172923.htm



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