"Revolutionizing Electron Microscopy: High-Resolution Imaging on a Budget"

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that record-breaking microscopic resolution can be achieved using electron ptychography on "conventional" transmission electron microscopes, breaking the trend of increasing microscope price with increasing resolution. This new technique, which uses computation to boost resolution, allows for deep sub-angstrom spatial resolution and rivals the highest ptychographic resolutions achieved with expensive aberration-corrected microscopes. The approach quadruples the resolution of conventional transmission electron microscopes and represents a significant paradigm shift in the field of electron microscopy.