UC Irvine News Brief: Wilson Ho wins award for two-story-high tunneling microscope
The Donald Bren Professor of physics & astronomy is honored by the American Vacuum Society.
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Professor Wilson Ho elected to National Academy of Sciences
The honor, considered one of the highest in scientific research, goes to a professor renowned for his development of a two- story-high, scanning, tunneling microscope to investigate single molecules.
UCI scientists turn a hydrogen molecule into a quantum sensor
New technique enables precise measurement of electrostatic properties of materials
UCI scientists are first to observe and image all-important molecular vibrations
Using light focused to size of an atom, they push microscopy resolution to new level
UCI scientists push microscopy to sub-molecular resolution
Carbon monoxide used to measure electric forces in single chemical compound
Delving into the atomic realm
UCI-built apparatus helps scientists probe the unknown
Molecule unmasked
UCI research team pioneers imaging technique that clearly reveals structure, individual chemical bonds
How things work
With his power tools, physics and chemistry professor Wilson Ho sheds light on molecules and atoms in action.