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New bolometer achieves sub-zeptojoule resolution

Thyracont’s vacuum measurement instruments enable innovation across industries

From semiconductor fabrication to pharmaceuticals, quantum technologies, and materials research, Thyracont’s vacuum instruments are at the heart of some of the world’s most adv...

Semiconductor metrology and standards will ensure the UK plays to its strengths

New roadmap states the UK must prioritize its capabilities in semiconductor standards

Tantala 3D integrated circuits deliver a rainbow of laser light

Devices could help miniaturize laser-based technologies

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Laser-driven free electron laser runs for more than eight hours

Laser stabilization system boosts quality of electron bunches

Two researchers working at the BELLA Center

‘Nano-aquariums’ deliver atomic-resolution imaging

Transmission electron microscopy probes solid–liquid interfaces

Illustration of the atomic structure of graphene

Miniature magnets break field strength record

New coiled device could rival expensive magnet facilities, say scientists

Surface contamination holds the key to a static electricity mystery

Carbon-rich “schmutz” determines how charge moves between objects made from identical insulating oxides

Photo of a speaker, which resembles a metallic plunger, suspending a tiny sphere of silica above a silica plate

Time crystal emerges in acoustic tweezers

System could shed light on emergent periodic phenomena in biological systems

Photograph of a particle being help in acoustic tweezers

Transfer learning could help muon tomography identify illicit nuclear materials

Hidden coated materials could be detected using new technique

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Quantum sensors benefit from miniaturized ultrahigh vacuum

Florence Concepcion of Aquark Technologies is our podcast guest

Ask me anything: Ian Griffiths – ‘While changing jobs is a daunting task, it has always been worthwhile’

Career tips from Ian Griffiths – a sales executive at microscope and spectrometer provider JEOL UK

Biomedical optics play crucial roles across medicine

Medical physicist, inventor and entrepreneur Brian Pogue is our podcast guest

Ultrasound system solves the ‘unsticking problem’ in biomedical research

Impulsonics’ “surround sound” technology frees-up living cells

Photo of people who work for Impulsonics

Pockets and pillars capture ricocheting molecules in vacuum pump

Passive system could give quantum sensors a boost

Photos of the two 3D surfaces that have been created for passive vacuum pumping

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Joined-up thinking in quantum metrology: why collaboration is the secret of success

NPL has joined forces with other leading National Metrology Institutes to shape the international standards effort in quantum technologies

Lord Vallance, UK Minister for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear

Cavity-based X-ray laser delivers high-quality pulses

Electron undulator amplifies X-ray beam

Schematic showing X-ray and electron pulses in XFEL

Ion-clock transition could benefit quantum computing and nuclear physics

Deformed nucleus makes multi-ion design easier

Schematic showing how the shape of ytterbium-173 nucleus affects the clock transition

New sensor uses topological material to detect helium leaks

Device works by monitoring frequency of sound waves propagating through a kagome material

Diagram showing white cylinders arranged in a triangular pattern and connected by white tubes. A series of three smaller diagrams shows the device from different angles and the location of gas inlets.

NPL unveils miniature atomic fountain clock

Precision timekeeper is just 5% the size of a conventional clock

Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock

Bidirectional scattering microscope detects micro- and nanoscale structures simultaneously

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move

Conceptual illustration of the bidirectional quantitative scattering microscope

Physicists overcome ‘acoustic collapse’ to levitate multiple objects with sound

Finding could have applications in acoustic-levitation-assisted 3D printing, mid-air chemical synthesis and micro-robotics

Two researchers with goggles in their lab

Memristors could measure a single quantum of resistance

Devices could eliminate the strong magnetic fields currently required to define the standard unit of resistance

Conceptual image showing some solid-looking buildings perched on top of a computer chip with wires snaking off in all directions

Looking for inconsistencies in the fine structure constant

High-precision laser spectroscopy measurements on the thorium-229 nucleus could reveal new physics, say TU Wien physicists

Electrical charge on objects in optical tweezers can be controlled precisely

New technique could shed light on electrification of aerosols

Photograph of the optical-tweezers and a member of the research team

Is your WiFi spying on you?

"Beamforming feedback information" in latest version of the technology can identify individuals passing through radio networks with almost 100% accuracy, say researchers

Photo of a wireless access point mounted on a building, seen from below so that it looks like an eye looking down at the viewer

Sympathetic cooling gives antihydrogen experiment a boost

Having more antimatter could help solve profound mysteries of physics

SEMICON Europa 2025 presents cutting-edge technology for semiconductor R&D and production

Europe’s largest event for electronics manufacturing comes to Munich on 18−21 November, 2025

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