Rolf Crook and colleagues used an atomic force microscope to define quantum electronic components – such as quantum wires and dots – on the surface of a gallium arsenide wafer. The tip of the ...
In the 17th century, microscopes were custom creations, and Robert Hooke’s gave him a view into a world that few people had seen. A scientific polymath, Hooke had worked on the wave theory of light ...
Sketch of the imaging and holographic part of the transient holographic microscope, including the trains of pulses to illustrate the signal modulation approach. The array of diffraction limited ...
Every exquisite drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the founder of modern neuroscience, is marred by a curious mark. Here is the little-known story behind it. Working alone at the turn of the 20th ...
SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL was always a rebel. Born in Spain in 1852, as a youngster he ignored his father’s pleas to follow a career in medicine and instead pursued his own interests – drawing, ...