From silicon nanospheres creating vivid, non-fading hues to helium atom beams etching chips at unprecedented scales, printing and lithography are entering a bold new era. These breakthroughs could ...

Why does the sun shine, and how does it avoid burning out? The sun's energy is produced through a process called fusion, ...

Neutral helium microscopy and atom optics constitute an innovative imaging paradigm that exploits low-energy, charge-neutral helium atoms to non-destructively investigate surface properties at the ...

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...

For the first time, researchers from the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence have determined the charge radius of helium-3 and thus also the exact difference to the radius of helium-4. This precision ...