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How to improve a huge super-resolution microscope: shrink it

Physicists redesign an enormous and costly imaging device to make it smaller and cheaper.
Transmission Electron Microscopy employing Linacs.

This high-voltage transmission electron microscope is much smaller than earlier models, which can take up an entire two-storey building. Credit: Yukinori Nagatani/NIPS

After decades of attempts, scientists have developed a compact version of a powerful microscope — opening the door to wider use of the devices, which typically occupy an entire building.

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Nature 574, 456 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03134-x

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