First observation of positronium matter-wave diffraction with a graphene grating

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electronpositron atom using a graphene-based ...
JSTOR Daily

Reconciliation of Two-Dimensional ('Cross-Grating') and Three-Dimensional Phenomena in Electron Diffraction and Resolution of Other Anomalies on the Basis of Bragg Reflexions ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 250, No. 1263 (Apr. 7, 1959), pp. 439-459 (21 pages) An intricate repetitive fringe pattern, due to the ...
BGR

Scientists Bent Atoms In An Experiment Everyone Thought Was Impossible

Scientists have demonstrated that atoms can exhibit wave-like behavior, challenging long-held assumptions that experiments of this nature were impossible and opening new doors in quantum physics. The ...
AZoNano

Using XRD for Structural Analysis in Nanomaterials

XRD works by directing X-rays onto a crystalline material and analyzing the angles and intensities of the diffracted beams. The atomic planes within the crystal act as a three-dimensional grating, ...
Physics World

World’s thinnest diffraction gratings made from graphene

A variety of ultrathin nanomechanical diffraction gratings that have been fashioned from the “wonder material” graphene have been created by an international team of researchers. The team wanted to ...
Physics World

Spectroscopy technique gets X-ray vision

Researchers in Switzerland have made a popular materials characterization technique accessible to ultrafast X-ray laser light for the first time. The new approach allowed the team to film atomic ...