Grab your lab coat, or at least pretend you have one, and prepare to zoom way, way in because we’re about to explore a world ...

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually ...

Electron microscopy has increasingly found more applications in recent years. Every sample has a mixture of optimized settings that must be utilized to enhance the results of the investigation. This ...

MXenes are an important recent discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials research. Since the unique 2D material class was discovered, electron microscopy techniques have been the primary method used ...

James Hillier, the Canadian-born physicist who made the first practical electron microscope, then personally convinced hundreds of scientists to use it, has died. He was 91. Hillier died of a stroke ...