An electron microscope will soon revolutionize the world of nanotechnology. The super microscope developed by scientists of the universities of Liverpool, Glasgow and Leads along with the researchers of the Daresbury Laboratory, will magnify an atom by 20 million times. The Super Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope or SuperSTEM 2 has inbuilt computer-controlled systems that produces sharp images of particles by reducing visual defects. The SuperSTEM 2 scans a beam that is focused to the size of an atom falling on a sample and provides physical and chemical information of the sample.
SuperSTEM 2 will be applied in medical research with immediate application in studying haemochromatosis an inherited liver disease where iron deposits in the liver. The other application of this super microscope will be in the field of microchip development where smaller and advanced chips will be created for computers and mobile phones. However, this super microscope is not available in any of the laboratories of the world other than the Daresbury Laboratory. The stable geological condition of Daresbury has made it the most preferred location for building this super microscope on its sandstone bedrock. Geological stability ensures that any sample in the microscope will not drift by half a millimeter in 100 years.
Source: Nextenergy News
