Helium-Ion Microscopy Fires the Imagination of Researchers in U.S. and Japan The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ...

Scientists have found an exciting new way to manipulate and design materials of the future at the atomic level and change the way they behave at a larger scale that opens the way to new applications ...

The advent of helium ion microscopy (HIM) has revolutionised nanoscale imaging and fabrication by offering unparalleled resolution and minimal sample damage. This technique utilises a focused beam of ...

Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope. In contrast to the more conventional ...

Bacteria and viruses can be imaged with helium ions in contrast to electrons which are the standard workhorse in nanoscale microscopy, report scientists. Helium ions, being more massive than electrons ...

A new detector from Carl Zeiss for its Orion Plus helium-ion microscope adds structural and compositional analysis capabilities to the scope’s subnanometer resolution imaging. The Spectra detector ...

In Wednesday's issue of Nature, a new paper describes a potentially useful way of measuring the interactions between normal matter and exotic particles, like antiprotons and unstable items like kaons ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and ...

(Nanowerk News) Helium ion beam (HIB) technology plays an important role in the extreme fields of nanofabrication. Due to high resolution and sensitivity, HIB nanofabrication technology is widely used ...

To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space radiation, we ideally need to be able to test the effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) here on Earth ...

Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics have succeeded for the first time in imaging the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with a helium ion microscope. In contrast to the more conventional ...