Friday, June 21, 2013

The STEHM Microscope: Finally, Nanoscientists Can See What They're Doing

Your average atom is about 62 to 520 picometers in diameter, but since that's a full factor smaller than the 390 to 700 nanometers human eye can perceive, direct observation using conventional microscopes is physically impossible. But that's where the electron beams come in. The University of Victoria has just installed the most powerful scanning electron microscope in history.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/aq88m1UgUpU/the-stehm-microscope-finally-nanoscientists-can-see-w-514153554

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