Apr 29, 2025 XY flexure-guided piezo nanopositioning stage delivers ultra-precise motion, long-term stability, and travel to 1500 microns. (Nanowerk News) Nanometer adjustment precision, wear-free operation, and clean-room compatibility is critical in applications such as super-resolution microscopy, micro-assembly, beam delivery, photonics, and optical metrology, often requiring continuous 24/7 operation. To address...
No assumptions: just quantum advantage
Apr 29, 2025 Researchers demonstrate that even small, noisy quantum circuits can outperform certain types of classical computation, without relying on assumptions or ideal conditions. (Nanowerk News) INL researcher Michael de Oliveira, together with collaborators from the University of Cambridge and the Hon Hai (Foxconn) Quantum Computing Research Center, has...
Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles?
Apr 29, 2025 Researchers showed they can inexpensively produce silk microneedles to deliver vitamins or agrochemicals to plants. (Nanowerk News) When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50 percent of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants. Now, a team of...
Atomic strain sensing with a silver single atom chain
Apr 29, 2025 A silver single-atom chain demonstrates atomic-scale strain sensing and piezoresistive effects, advancing nanotechnology and nanoscale sensing capabilities. (Nanowerk Spotlight) At the scale of individual atoms, materials behave in ways that defy everyday intuition. Stretch a metal wire by a few micrometers and its resistance changes only slightly....
New discovery changes views on star and planet formation
Apr 29, 2025 A new study is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars. It reveals that the environment plays a crucial role in determining the size and lifetime of these planetary disks, which are the sites of planet formation. (Nanowerk News) A study led by Paolo...