Probing material properties at surfaces down to the single-particle scale of atoms and
molecules has been achieved, but high-resolution subsurface imaging remains a …

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) allows the spatial imaging, measurement, and
manipulation of nano and atomic scale surfaces in real space. In the last two decades …

Crystallization in glasses is usually considered to be a problem in the glass industry.
However, controlled crystallization of glasses is an important prerequisite in the …

Since the first discovery of polyacetylene in the late 1970s, one-dimensional (1D)
conjugated polymers have attracted immense research interest as a result of their high …

Slurryless electrochemical mechanical polishing (ECMP) has been confirmed as a highly
efficient damage-free polishing technique for SiC wafers. To increase the material removal …

It is now possible to create atomically thin regions of dopant atoms in silicon patterned with
lateral dimensions ranging from the atomic scale (angstroms) to micrometers. These …

Research about two-dimensional (2D) materials is growing exponentially across various
scientific and engineering disciplines due to the wealth of unusual physical phenomena that …

Understanding the nanoscale electrodynamic properties of a material at microwave
frequencies is of great interest for materials science, condensed matter physics, device …

This paper presents an instrument called an inverted scanning microwave microscope
(iSMM), which is capable of performing noninvasive and label-free imaging and …

Tunable electronic materials that can be switched between different impedance states are
fundamental to the hardware elements for neuromorphic computing architectures. This …