Optical manipulation on the nano-scale, or nanophotonics, has become a critical research area, as researchers seek ways to meet the ever-increasing demand for information processing and communications. The ability to control and manipulate light o...
Feb 24, 2020
Modern anticancer therapies aim to attack tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and FU Berlin has made important progress in this area: the scientists have...
Feb 24, 2020
Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technology.
Feb 24, 2020
Researchers are planning to develop imaging that can look at biological systems at a much higher resolution and definition.
Feb 24, 2020
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.
Feb 24, 2020
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.
Feb 24, 2020
For the first time, researchers have recorded a '3D film' of magnetic processes on the nanometer scale. This reveals a variety of dynamics inside the material, including the motion of swirling boundaries between different magnetic domain...
Feb 24, 2020
Metals get stronger as the size of the grains making up the metal get smaller -- up to a point. If the grains are smaller than 10 nanometers in diameter the materials are weaker because, it was thought, they slide past each other like sand sliding...
Feb 24, 2020
Modern anticancer therapies aim to attack tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue. A team of researchers has now produced tiny nanoparticles that are designed to specifically target cancer cells. They can navigate directly to the tumor cells and ...
Feb 24, 2020
Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and 'tornadoes' thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
Feb 24, 2020
