Daniel E Prober is in the Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University, NewHaven, Connecticut 06520-8284 USA. e-mail: daniel.prober@yale.edu Astronomers crave a detector sensitive enough to detect a single photon and determine its energy. new single-pixel
A family of microscopy forms where a sharp probe is scanned across a surface and some tip/sample interactions are monitored Scanning tunneling Microscopy(STM) Atomic Force Microscopy(AFM)