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| Electron Strobe Makes Movies of Atoms                              |
|   from the first-steps-toward-a-nanodisco dept.                    |
|   posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 22, @02:08 (Science)    |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/22/0351224 |
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[0]holy_calamity writes “Some grainy black and white movies are receiving
rave reviews from scientists. They are taken by a new microscope which,
thanks to a ‘strobing’ electron gun, can [1]image movement at
sub-nanometer scales. Until now, only still images that smeared out
movement were possible at such scales. The [2]press release notes, ‘The
researchers first blasted the sample with a pulse of heat. The heated
carbon atoms began to vibrate in a random, nonsynchronized fashion. Over
time, however, the oscillations of the individual atoms became
synchronized as different modes of the material locked in phase, emerging
to become a heartbeat-like “drumming.”‘ [3]Further details and a few
animations are available at Caltech’s site.”

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/11/22/0351224

Links:
0. http://www.newscientist.com/technology
1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16100-electron-strobe-turns-atoms-into-movie-stars.html
2. http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR13207.html
3. http://ust.caltech.edu/press/ued.html