Lead Atoms Imaged During Phase Change

fsh writes "José Gómez-Rodríguez and company from the Madrid Autonomous University have successfully imaged the phase change of a lead crystal from 45K to 135K. They built their very own variable temperature scanning-tunneling microscope, capable of continuously scanning an area 20nm square throughout a 100K temperature jump. This was a surface phase change, but their technique will hopefully pave the way for imaging other phase changes, like solid to liquid. Check out the movie."

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Server phase change

[Gogo Dodo]

That poor server is going to have a phase change real soon. Nothing like linking a 8MB movie off /. to cripple a server.

Try using MirrorDot.