{"id":122767,"date":"2021-05-21T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/researchers-see-atoms-at-record-resolution"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:43","slug":"researchers-see-atoms-at-record-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/researchers-see-atoms-at-record-resolution","title":{"rendered":"Researchers see atoms at record resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-see-atoms-at-record-resolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Cornell researchers built a high-powered detector that, in combination with an algorithm-driven process called ptychography, set a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-electron-microscope-detector-resolution.html\">world record<\/a> by tripling the resolution of a state-of-the-art electron microscope.<\/p>\n<p>As successful as it was, that approach had a weakness. It only worked with ultrathin samples that were a few <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> thick. Anything thicker would cause the electrons to scatter in ways that could not be disentangled.<\/p>\n<p>Now a team, again led by David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, has bested its own record by a factor of two with an electron microscope pixel array detector (EMPAD) that incorporates even more sophisticated 3D reconstruction algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Cornell researchers built a high-powered detector that, in combination with an algorithm-driven process called ptychography, set a world record by tripling the resolution of a state-of-the-art electron microscope. As successful as it was, that approach had a weakness. It only worked with ultrathin samples that were a few atoms thick. Anything thicker would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}