New imaging method sheds light on cell growth

29-Aug-2011 - University of Illinois researchers are giving a light answer to the heavy question of cell growth. Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu, the research team developed a new imaging method called spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) that can measure cell mass ...

Controlling magnetism with electric fields

RUB- researchers make high-precision measurement possible with X-ray scattering

25-Aug-2011 - An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room temperature. Previously this was only at all possible at extremely low and unpractical temperatures. Electric fields are technically much ...

Breakthrough in Photoemission Spectroscopy Allows Electronic Investigations Inside Crystals

23-Aug-2011 - The physical properties of solid substances are based on electronic states inside the materials. Now, an international team of researchers with the involvement of Jülich scientists has succeeded in studying these states in previously unimagined depths. The results have been published as an ...

High-tech microscope measures electron oscillations

22-Aug-2011 - Researchers from Bielefeld, Kaiserslautern and Würzburg have developed a novel high-tech microscope: It magnifies objects a million times and shows movements with a retardation of one million billion times. The new technology allows tracking extremely fast processes in miniature objects – with an ...

Anasys Instruments receives Microscopy Today’s 2011 Innovation Award for their AFM-IR platform

19-Aug-2011 - Anasys Instruments’ AFM-IR system has been recognized by Microscopy Today in the receipt of the 2011 Innovation Award. It was presented to CEO, Roshan Shetty, at the 2011 M&M Annual conference held this year in Nashville, TN. The AFM-IR technique was developed by Dr. Alexandre Dazzi at the ...

ORNL microscopy generates new view of fuel cells

18-Aug-2011 - A novel microscopy method at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping scientists probe the reactions that limit widespread deployment of fuel cell technologies. ORNL researchers applied a technique called electrochemical strain microscopy that enables them to examine ...

Carl Zeiss Grants Sublicense for LED Fluorescence Excitation to Prior Scientific Ltd.

18-Aug-2011 - Effective retroactively to 1 June 2011, the Microscopy business group of Carl Zeiss has granted a sublicense for patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy to Prior Scientific Ltd., Cambridge, UK. These patents protect the use of light emitting diodes for the excitation of ...

True Surface Microscopy wins Microscopy Today Innovation Award 2011

Third Consecutive Award

17-Aug-2011 - WITec has just received the Microscopy Today Innovation Award for thedevelopment of True Surface Microscopy. Each year, the Microscopy Today magazine selects the best new development in microscopy and presents the award at the US Microscopy and Microanalysis Exhibition and Conference which this ...

SALVE Project Enters Second Phase

Successful evaluation phase prompts University of Ulm and Carl Zeiss to continue with their joint venture to develop a high-performance transmission electron microscope

16-Aug-2011 - Following the successful completion of a two-year evaluation phase, the University of Ulm, the Heidelberg-based company CEOS GmbH and Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems have signed an agreement to embark on the next phase of the SALVE project. SALVE – which stands for Sub-Angstrom Low Voltage ...

Sequenom Announces European Licensing Agreement With LifeCodexx

16-Aug-2011 - Sequenom, Inc. announced it has partnered with LifeCodexx AG for the commercialization of prenatal laboratory testing services in Europe. The companies have agreed to collaborate in the development and launch of a trisomy 21 laboratory developed test and other aneuploidies testing in Germany, ...