Researchers who broke the record for the highest-resolution microscope in 2018 outperformed themselves by using a technology that magnifies images 100 million times to get the most detailed image of an atom.
Physicists employed ptychography, a technique that involves directing an electron beam at an item, according to Scientific American. The algorithms employ the scan that is created when the laser bounces off to reconstruct an image.
A praseodymium orthoscandate crystal was used by David Muller at Cornell University in New York and his colleagues to take the picture.Previously, this technique could be used to capture images of things that were a few atoms thick.
