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Sub-µm helium microscopy without giving up working distance
A paper from the group has been accepted in Ultramicroscopy, reporting a helium atom beam just 340 nm across at a working distance of 850 µm. That is a sixfold...
20 September 2026
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Probing Surface Phonon Lifetimes and Energy Dissipation via Helium Spin Echo Spectroscopy
A recent paper by Tamtögl et al. demonstrates that helium spin echo spectroscopy can directly measure the intrinsic linewidths and lifetimes of low-energy surface vibrations with micro-electronvolt energy resolution. For...
6 August 2026
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Using quantum mechanics to simulate ballistic motion of surface adsorbates
When an atom or molecule adsorbed on a surface is thermally excited, it moves in two distinct regimes: ballistic motion at short times, where nothing has yet disturbed its trajectory,...
8 July 2026
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AI-Powered Code Compresses Microscope Software Development from Months to Weeks
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has demonstrated a major breakthrough in scientific instrumentation by using general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) to fully build and deploy a...
27 May 2026
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Mapping the Cleanliness of Wafer-Scale 2D Materials
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the ISIS Facility have pioneered a new method to track and remove microscopic contamination on 2D materials, a breakthrough that could significantly improve...
20 April 2026
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A Breakthrough in Imaging Hydrogen on Surfaces
Hydrogen plays a vital role in everything from clean fuel technologies to semiconductor engineering. However, its exceptionally low mass and weak interaction with standard microscopy probes make it notoriously difficult...
20 March 2026
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Unlocking Unified Framework to Measure Atomic-Scale Surface Motion
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the ISIS Facility have announced a breakthrough in materials science by establishing a unified framework to determine how atoms and molecules move across...
12 February 2026
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Journal Club: Electric Field Effect Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene
This Friday we will have another seminar. Boyao will host a journal club on this paper about measuring electron-phonon coupling in graphene. This time dumplings will be served in stead...
5 November 2025
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Surface Physics Seminar
Please come to our seminar on many interesting research topics and eat CAKES! See here for details. The recordings of previous seminars are on SharePoint.
2 November 2025