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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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Directly Measuring How Surface Defects Affect Phonon Propagation
For the first time, researchers have directly measured how much “lifetime shortening” acoustic phonons (the primary carriers of heat) experience from surface defects. This process is a key bottleneck for...
5 November 2025
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3D Maps of Delicate Surfaces Acquired by Helium Atoms
Scientists have developed “heliometric stereo,” a new technique that creates quantitative 3D maps using a Scanning Helium Microscope (SHeM) [1]. This method overcomes the limitations of traditional 3D mapping tools...
5 November 2025
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Following atoms in real time
Researchers have used a technique similar to MRI to follow the movement of individual atoms in real time as they cluster together to form two-dimensional materials, which are a single...
5 November 2025
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Miniaturized Surface Diffraction from helium
Researchers have successfully adapted helium scattering, an ultra-gentle, surface-only measurement technique, to work on a microscopic scale [1]. Standard tools like electron microscopes can damage delicate samples and often probe...
5 November 2025
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It takes some heat to form ice
A new study from the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Surrey and Graz University of Technology (Austria), reveals that energy is needed for water to proceed...
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