Laser could create dark-matter particles
Physicists plan experiment at Hamburg lab to look for axions
Vacuum challenges and solutions
Reliability and innovation are touchstones for the vacuum industry in the 21st century. Reliability is needed to get the most out of expensive manufacturing equipment, while innovation is essential to...
Read article: Tiny writing heats up
Tiny writing heats up
Physicists develop improved dip-pen nanolithography method for nanometre-scale patterning
Read article: Gravity Probe B takes off
Gravity Probe B takes off
Experiment will check two untested predictions of general relativity
Read article: Gold plating on the cheap
Gold plating on the cheap
Gold nitride could cut costs for the electronics industry
Scientists spy on growing nanoparticles
French scientists have developed a new method that monitors the growth of nanoparticles in real time
Electrons trapped by laser beam
The experiment was carried out inside a vacuum chamber filled with a low density nitrogen or argon gas. A wave plate – in the form of a small circular piece of material – was inserted into...
Superfluid helium as a vacuum
In an ingenious series of experiments the Göttingen team squirted liquid helium through a fine nozzle to create drops containing about 104 atoms at a temperature of 0.1 K. The team used laser spectro...
