Tuesday, January 29, 2008
New Ultra-powerful Microscope can show an individual Atom
The SuperSTEM 2 can show an atom at 20 million times its size. At 20 million times its size an atom would measure approximately 5mm across. However, it is not just the scale of magnification that makes SuperSTEM 2 unique -- it is also the sharpness of the image, its capability to provide elemental and chemical data about atoms and its stability.
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