Yikes! NIST Sensor Measures Yoctonewton Forces Fast
August 31, 2010
August 31, 2010
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news release:
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces--one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth--can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale scien . . .
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces--one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth--can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale scien . . .