Friday, April 13, 2007

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado-Boulder, CO scientists have developed a new technology that might be able to improve the speed of scanning tunneling microscopes by as much as 500 times! This device consists of a tiny gold beam whose 40 million vibrations per second are measured by electrons. This device measures the wiggling of the beam. According to researchers, this technology might lead to the way for scientists to watch atoms vibrate in real time.