Frontiers and trends in advanced scientific instruments
Available online 14 February 2026
Advanced scientific instruments are state-of-the-art tools to advance modern science and technology. Driven by urgent demands of frontier research, instrumentation is rapidly evolving toward high-resolution,...
Artificial intelligence-empowered scanning probe microscopy: Recent advances and future perspectives
Available online 6 February 2026
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a powerful technique that enables the characterization and manipulation of materials at the atomic and molecular levels. However, conventional SPM techniques are limited...
An ultrafast transmission electron microscopy with integration of transient optical spectroscopy
Available online 13 February 2026
Ultrafast condensed-matter science seeks to unravel how photoexcited electrons exchange energy and momentum with the lattice, setting the causal pathways for relaxation, coherent phonon generation,...
Cs-corrected cryo-TEM with inert-gas protection for atomic characterization of dual air- and beam-sensitive materials
Available online 20 January 2026
Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) has revolutionized life sciences, yet its application in materials research remains limited, leaving much of its potential untapped. This gap arises...
Recent instrumental developments in chiral mass spectrometry
Available online 28 January 2026
Chirality is essential for life, as molecular asymmetry underpins DNA structure, enzyme specificity, and biochemical reactions, highlighting the critical need for precise chiral analysis in fields such...
Snapshot Fourier ellipsometry: Pushing to sub-nanometer accuracy for high-throughput thin film metrology
Available online 17 February 2026
Fourier ellipsometry (FE) has emerged as a promising candidate for high-throughput thin-film metrology in semiconductors, addressing critical demands for inline integration with a compact design, micro-spot...
Broadband infrared sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy enhanced by post-dual optical parametric amplification
Available online 6 February 2026
Sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy is an important tool for probing interfacial molecular structures and dynamics, but its application to weak signals is hindered by limited sensitivity....
In-situ polarimetry in collimated magneto-infrared spectroscopy system
Available online 9 February 2026
Magneto-infrared spectroscopy under strong magnetic fields provides a powerful probe of Landau quantization and field-induced collective excitations, yet its full potential has long been constrained...
Calorimetric methods for measuring the energies of adsorbed catalytic reaction intermediates, of surface metal atoms in catalyst materials, and of surface reaction steps in other technologies
Available online 25 February 2026
There is tremendous motivation to know the energies of adsorbed catalytic reaction intermediates and transition states on different surfaces, for these are the factors that determine the differences...
Advanced Scientific Instruments: Vanguard of discovery
Available online 19 February 2026
A cryogen-free low temperature scanning probe microscope system for ångström-resolved spectroscopic imaging
Available online 28 February 2026
We report the development of a cryogen-free, low-temperature optical-coupled scanning probe microscope (LT-OC-SPM) designed for high-resolution multimodal imaging and spectroscopy. To mitigate the mechanical...