Improvements to scanning transmission electron microscope now allows vibrational spectroscopy

(Phys.org) --A team of researchers in the U.S. has added the ability to detect atomic lattice vibrations to a scanning tunneling electron microscope. In their paper describing their efforts, published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they applied new advances in vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope to allow for better study of such things as nanostructures involved in dynamic processes. Rik Brydson, of the University of Leeds in the U.K. offers a New & Views piece on ...