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Science News, March 15, 2008 by Bill Schindele, Ewen Callaway
"Extreme Measures" (SN: 2/16/08, p. 107) was wonderful. We have had light and electron microscopes. Can we look forward to atom-wave microscopes?
BILL SCHINOELE, THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF.
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Yes. A team led by Bodil Holst at Graz University of Technology in Austria has built a microscope that bombards a sample with helium waves and then measures how the waves reflect to create a picture. In late 2007, Holst's team took the first-ever two-dimensional picture with a helium atom microscope: a blurry image of a tiny, honeycomb-shaped grating.
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