Laser takes pictures of electrons in crystals

(University of Rostock ) Microscopes of visible light allow to see tiny objects as living cells and their interior. They cannot discern how electrons are distributed among atoms in solids. Researchers around Prof. E. Goulielmakis of Extreme Photonics Labs at the University of Rostock and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, along with coworkers of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, developed a new type of a light microscope.