Physicists have turned a long-standing imaging workhorse into a kind of nanoscale chisel, using a razor-precise ion beam to ...

The Contact stress and area problems set up like this. Picking calculation produces the outputs shown. Beam-section properties pop up with either of the beam modules, or can be accessed on its own.

(Nanowerk News) A research team in Japan has now succeeded in developing high precision X-ray deformable mirrors that can be configured as necessary. They are the first to have achieved the formation ...