IBM probe detects an atom's charge
News Scientists there have come up with a way to distinguish positively charged atoms from those that are neutral or negatively charged. This device was used to distinguish among gold atoms that were positively charged, neutral or negatively charged.
[June 15, 2009, 17:07]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outlined, in a recent issue of Applied Physics Letters, a new way of harnessing neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber by sending them past laser beams tuned to a frequency that...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
Researchers move toward plastic chips
News Organic polymers are molecules that contain a long string of carbon atoms and make versatile plastics. The challenge: The weak electrostatic attractions that bind the carbon-60 crystal lattice--known as van der Waals forces--will rapidly weaken...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
