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Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector Can Visualize Atomic Bonds

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the seeing-is-believing dept.

takyon writes:

New Electron Microscope Achieves Record-Breaking Resolution (0.039 nm)

Researchers have developed a new approach to electron microscopy that not only allows us to see individual atoms but to also learn about several of their properties at the same time.

The technology is called an electron microscope pixel array detector (EMPAD). The tech, developed last year, goes beyond imaging individual atoms – it was employed to study two one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide, with one layer on top of the other and slightly askew so that the single atoms are visible. EMPAD reached a world-record resolution for such an image.

As reported in Nature, researchers were able to resolve a distance of 0.039 nanometers, a distance smaller than the smallest atom. The usual distance for atomic bonds is 0.1-0.2 nanometers, with the EMPAD able to visualize these bonds.

Also at Cornell University.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:37AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:37AM (#715539)

    Atomic structures are now in the realm of common human visual reasoning.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:43AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:43AM (#715566) Journal

    visual reasoning

    My guts are telling me that the visual is unreasonable.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:34PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:34PM (#715630) Journal

    You would enter a Quantum Realm... a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity. Everything that you know and love, gone forever.

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