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Is An Atomic Microscope In Our Future?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic

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When you read the header to this article, you probably thought I made a mistake. Doesn't he mean atomic force microscope, the familiar AFM? And isn't that microscope in our present, not in our future? Well, I'm not confused. The reference is to a beam of atoms that some day may be used in an atomic microscope, just like a beam of electrons is used in an electron microscope. It would be even more accurate to refer to an “atomic de Broglie microscope,” but that's a rather awkward label.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , December 2000 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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Notes

2 Doak, R.B., R.E. Grisenti, S. Rehbein, G. Schmahl, J.P. Toennies, and C. Wöll, Towards realization of an atomic de Broglie microscope: Helium atom focusing using Fresnel zone plates, Physical Review Lett. 83:4229-4232, 1999. See also the report by Andrew Watson, Helium beam show the gentle, sensitive touch, Science 286:1831, 1999.