Scientists have long theorized that the energy stored in the atomic bonds of nitrogen could one day be a source of clean energy. But coaxing the nitrogen atoms into linking up has been a daunting task ...

Researchers have reported the production of the first pure polymeric nitrogen compound at near-ambient conditions. The substance, which has existed only in theory for the last three decades, is ...

The feature size of silicon-based transistors is approaching the theoretical limit, which puts forward higher requirements for the “atomic level manufacturing” of semiconductors. The basic idea of ...

In the world of quantum computing, diamonds might be an engineer’s best friend. That’s because a fabled, super-pure type of gem mined from the Ural Mountains has quantum properties that could provide ...

It has been over 30 years since the first focused ion beam was used to make a TEM specimen. FEI, a company that is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, has been an essential part of helping take ion ...

Plasmas consist of complicated mixtures of neutral and charged species. It is certainly critical for the design and control of any surface engineering process that the user has as much information as ...