put the zircon inside an ultra-precise atom probe and, Valley says, got "data that answered the most serious of the challenges going back to 2001." The concept for the atom probe dates to the ...

The technique, known as atom probe tomography, provided a new way to study the moon’s surface. It’s typically used in materials science with nanowire production because it can analyze ...

Led by researchers at the Field Museum and the University of Glasgow, the study was made possible by Northwestern University’s atom-probe tomography facility, which “nailed down” the age of the oldest ...

Scanning probe microscopes are widely used to study surfaces with atomic resolution in many areas of nanoscience. Ultracold atomic gases trapped in electromagnetic potentials can be used to study ...

The high-spatial-resolution, three-dimensional imaging and analyses provided by the atom probe will be utilized by researchers in the Materials, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, ...

The first commercial 3 Dimensional Atom Probe (3DAP) has been sold into the People's Republic of China. This milestone purchase of an instrument which brings a unique approach to materials ...