An atom lens is analogous to a glass lens used in an optical microscope or magnifying glass, but rather than focusing a beam of light, it focuses a beam of atoms down to a spot. Illustration: Jenna ...

Five years later, scientists were able to peer inside a hydrogen atom using a "quantum microscope," resulting in the first direct observation of electron orbitals. And now we have the first X-ray ...

TEAM 0.5 is the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope and is capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution, less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.

showing the magnetic field of the atom at different strengths.Credit...Willke et al. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope is just a few atoms wide. And it moves along the surface of a sample ...

The transmission electron microscope was designed to break records ... They even could spot a gap where a sulfur atom was missing in the material’s otherwise repeating pattern.

Phys. Rev. Lett.) The first direct observation of the orbital structure of an excited hydrogen atom has been made by an international team of researchers. The observation was made using a newly ...

"With this microscope, we hope the scientific community ... Related: Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors To create an ...

The ultrasoft 'tip' of the cold-atom scanning probe microscope will offer new possibilities for exploring the interactions between atoms and surfaces. Gases of ultracold atoms have allowed a ...

The best machines now can see objects smaller than an angstrom — one ten-billionth of a meter, and roughly the size of an atom. But retrofitting an old microscope with aberration correctors is ...

Physicists in the US claim to have used a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to see a single hydrogen atom – the first time that a TEM has been used to image such a light atom. The breakthrough ...