This insane machine can see ATOMS!

Today's video is about my favorite microscope ever. I did a lot of work in gradschool on this STEM, or Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, and today I get to share how it works! Extra thanks to the Materials Department at UCSB for letting me film in the lab!

Admittedly it's old footage, but since it's REAL research, I was waiting for the paper to get published. If anybody's super-curious, here's the doi: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00188 (unfortunately it's not indexed on SciHub yet - I'm trying to figure out how to get the manuscript posted elsewhere for you guys - check back in a couple days if you're curious!)

Music and graphics:

I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

Map of Kikuchi line pairs down to 1/1Å for 300 keV electrons in hexagonal sapphire (Al2O3), with some intersections labeled P. Fraundorf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

The Quantum Realm by The Whole Other YouTube Audio Library License

Memes: Shrek (Dreamworks) Pokemon (Nintendo) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVNZgnQ8gE