Big Data at the Atomic Scale: New Detector Reaches New Frontier in Speed

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Electron microscopy experiments can only use a fraction of the possible information generated, because the microscope’s electron beam interacts with samples. Now, researchers have designed a new kind of electron detector that captures all of the information in these interactions. This new tool captures more images at a faster rate, revealing atomic-scale details across much larger areas than was possible before.