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Lead Atoms Imaged During Phase Change

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-but-what-about-leptons-huh dept.

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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  1. It's not impossible by Palverone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WEDGE: That's impossible, even for a computer.

    LUKE: It's not impossible. I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my
    T-sixteen back home. They're not much bigger than two meters.