The World's Most Powerful Microscope
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on Mar 31, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós, Producer
for QUEST Northern CaliforniaTopics: Engineering, Physics, Television
Science Education Collections: Grade 7, Grade 8, HS Chemistry
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab recently turned on a $27 million electron microscope. Its ability to make images to a resolution half the width of a hydrogen atom made it the most powerful microscope in the world.
Tags: electron, kqed, microscope, microscopy, pbs, QUESTAdditional Links
- The Golub Collection
- The TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope)
- Producer's Notes: World's Most Powerful Microscope
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