Latest development in microscope, we able to see an image at 0.05 nm and below resolution in near time. For now, it will delivered to the Berkeley National Laboratory in 2008 and will be fully operational in 2010. This machine was developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected microscope), which supported by the U.S Department of energy. Later on, scientists can study in better understanding how atoms combine to form materials, how materials grow and how they respond to a variety of external factors.
Above, we can see "a high resolution TEM image of the dumbbell structure (0.14nm) of Germanium, which reveals that inter atomic distances can be measured with ultrahigh precision.
The intensity profile (insert) brilliantly proves that the contrast level in between the germanium dumbbell reaches the base level of the larger distances of the structure." (Credit: FEI Company)
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