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"This transmission electron microscope is like a very powerful camera ... Related: Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors ...

NIST researcher June Lau with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) that she and her colleagues retrofitted in order to make high-quality atom-scale movies. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has devised a unique method to observe ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new RODAS technology provides detailed insights into atomic changes in materials, critical ...

Researchers devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for ...

Modern aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM ... directly from measurements of shifts of the individual atom positions. The conventional concept of image, which applies ...

The laser (pink) sets off an ultrafast pulse of electrons (green) inside the device. A laser pulse is then split into two ...

Researchers have been able to initiate a controlled movement in the very heart of an atom ... This electron could be manipulated and read out through the needle of a scanning tunneling microscope.

A scanning electron microscope, acquired in 2016 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, provides a powerful tool for students, faculty, and visiting researchers to study the structure and ...