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Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-can-see-clearly-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For over 70 years, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which 'looks through' an object to see atomic features within it, has been constrained by the relatively poor lenses which are used to form the image. The new method, called electron ptychography, dispenses with the lens and instead forms the image by reconstructing the scattered electron-waves after they have passed through the sample using computers. Scientists involved in the scheme consider their findings to be a first step in a completely new epoch of electron imaging. The process has no fundamental experimental boundaries and it is thought it will transform sub-atomic scale transmission imaging."

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  1. Current users by Pope · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Human League, Def Leppard, Heaven 17, ABC, Cabaret Voltaire and Pulp rejoice!

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  2. The most important question: by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you pronounce "ptychography"??

    1. Re:The most important question: by SmurfButcher+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly as it's spelled.

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    2. Re:The most important question: by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 4, Funny

      >> How do you pronounce "ptychography"??

      Choke on a crouton

  3. Re:holography? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sheffield, yeaaaaah, home to two shit football teams and the greatest condiment known to man, Henderson's Relish

  4. Re:It's very easy with a system of computers by squidflakes · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, are you predicting some sort of coal-mine gap?