Article: Sizing up atoms with electron holograms. (using lensless electron projectors to create images of atoms)

In their ongoing quest to see the all-but-invisible, physicists have developed a method for using patterns of scattered electrons to observe the three-dimensional atomic textures of materials. In this emerging technology, called electron holography, investigators exploit the wave-like properties of electrons to make their observations (SN: 10/15/88, p.252).

Now scientists have used a lensless electron projector to discern the arrangement of atoms in several types of materials. In the Sept. 16 PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Hans-Werner Fink and Heinz Schmid of IBM's Zurich (Switzerland) Research Laboratory and their colleagues describe the technique and the ...

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