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Enabling Resist Recess Depth Recipe Transfer and Fab-to-Fab MatchingTue Jun 20 2023

Discover how nanotools 4µm long, tilt compensated, high aspect ratio EBD4-200A is applied for resist recess depth measurements in narrow trenches.

• Title: AFM Surface Roughness and Depth Measurement of Trenches with High Aspect Ratio
• Authors: Franz Heider, Helfried Schwarzfurtner, Mario Lugger, Sang-Joon Cho, Thomas Trenkler
• Publication: Conference Proceedings: 30th Annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC)
• Publisher: IEEE
• Date: May 2019

The Albert Einstein World Award of ScienceTue Jun 20 2023

Visit NanoWorld® at Swiss NanoConvention SNC 2023Fri Jun 16 2023

Feasibility of wear reduction for soft nanostructured thin film through enhanced elastic recoverability and contact stress reliefTue Jun 13 2023

BudgetSensors® platinum coated ElectriMulti75-G AFM probesMon Jun 12 2023

Single Electrochemical Impacts of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Bacteria for Living Cells Adsorption onto a Polarized Ultramicroelectrode SurfaceThu Jun 08 2023

In the past few years, several novel analytical methods with high sensitivity and spatial-temporal resolution that enable qualitative and quantitative analysis at single-cell and subcellular levels have emerged. *

The four major areas of analytical methods usually reported are electrochemical analysis, super-resolution microscopy, mass spectrometry imaging, and microfluidics. *

Electrochemistry offers a distinctive and essential advantage in its ability to combine high sensitivity and easy handling with a light and portable instrumentation, thereby enabling miniaturized devices for micro-biosensor applications. *

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Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer, born on 06.06.1933Tue Jun 06 2023

PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN 1 (PBP1) OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS HAS MULTIPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS IN CELL DIVISIONWed May 31 2023

Bacterial cell division is a complex process requiring the coordination of multiple components to allow the appropriate spatial and temporal control of septum formation and cell scission. *

Peptidoglycan (PG) is the major structural component of the septum, and recent studies by Katarzyna Wacnik et al., in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus have revealed a complex, multistage PG architecture that develops during septation. *

Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are essential for the final steps of PG biosynthesis; their transpeptidase activity links the peptide side chains of nascent glycan strands. PBP1 is required for cell division in S. aureus. *

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Operando Characterizations of Light-Induced Junction Evolution in Perovskite Solar CellsTue May 30 2023

Light-induced performance changes in metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been studied intensively over the last decade, but little is known about the variation in microscopic optoelectronic properties of the perovskite heterojunctions in a completed device during operation.*

For the article “Operando Characterizations of Light-Induced Junction Evolution in Perovskite Solar Cells “ Chuanxiao Xiao, Yaxin Zhai, Zhaoning Song, Kang Wang, Changlei Wang, Chun-Sheng Jiang, Matthew C. Beard, Yanfa Yan and Mowafak Al-Jassim combined Kelvin probe force microscopy and transient reflection spectroscopy techniques to spatially resolve the evolution of junction properties during the operation of metal-halide PSCs and study the light-soaking effect.

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Switching spectroscopy piezoresponse force microscopy (SS-PFM) using our platinum coated MikroMasch HQ:NSC18/Pt AFM probesMon May 29 2023

SPHERULITE-LIKE MICROSTRUCTURE OBSERVED FOR SPIN-CAST P(VDF-TRFE) THIN FILMS AND THEIR FERROELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICSThu May 25 2023

Ferroelectric polymer thin films crystallize in different phases and microstructures depending on fabrication conditions such as annealing temperature or layer deposition technique.*

In the article “Spherulite-like microstructure observed for spin-cast P(VDF-TrFE) thin films and their ferroelectric characteristics” Davide Disnan, Jonas Hafner, Michael Schneider and Ulrich Schmid demonstrate how the morphology of spin-cast poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) thin films changes as a function of annealing temperature from rice-like to spherulite-like microstructure, whereas the latter morphology is closer to the crystallization characteristic of poly(vinylidene-fluoride) (PVDF).*

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Quantifying nanoscale forces in dynamic AFM using machine learningMon May 22 2023

Happy birthday, Prof. Gerber!Mon May 15 2023

BudgetSensors® Tap190Al-G AFM probe used in a studyTue May 09 2023

Mechanically Compatible Grafts for Aortic Repair Obtained Through Tissue EngineeringTue May 09 2023

Discover how nanotools biosphere™ with 2µm radius are applied for mechanical characterization of 20μm thick planar sections of human aortic layers at microscale.

• Title: Development and mechanical characterization of decellularized scaffolds for an active aortic graft
• Authors: Francesco Giovanniello, Meisam Asgari, Ivan D. Breslavsky, Giulio Franchini, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Maryam Tabrizian, Marco Amabili
• Publication: Acta BiomaterialiaPublisher: Elsevier
• Date: 1 April 2023

Correlative Atomic Force Microscopy with our OPUS 240AC-NA AFM probesMon Apr 24 2023

BudgetSensors® ElectriTap190-G AFM probes support the nanoscale mapping of temperature-dependent conductionTue Apr 18 2023

Crystalline Silicon Nanoparticles Size Tailoring to Nanometer ScaleTue Apr 11 2023

• Title: Crystalline silicon nanoparticle formation by tailored plasma irradiation: self-structurization, nucleation and growth acceleration, and size control
• Authors: Choi, Daehan; Kim, Jung Hyung; Kwon, Deuk Chul; Shin, Chae Ho; Rhu, Hyun; Yoon, Euijoon; Lee, Hyo-Chang
• Publication: Nanoscale
• Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Date: 16 Jun 2021

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