A New Age of Electron Microscopy: Magnifying Possibilities with Automation

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

Modern electron microscopes can capture incredibly detailed images of materials down to the atomic level, but they require a skilled operator and can only focus on very small areas at a time. Now, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, have created a n automated workflow that overcomes these limitations by allowing large amounts of data to be collected over wide areas without human intervention and then quickly transferred to supercomputers for real-time processing. Much of the work was done at The Molecular Foundry and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, two DOE Office of Science user facilities at Berkeley Lab.

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