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World's Smallest Electron Microscope (for Less than a Bimmer!)

From FEI Company
 

 

Is it possible to get too close to a fruit fly? Let's say you were to zoom in 1000x on the tiny beast (that's the limit of most optical microscopes). What would you see? I'll tell you what you'd see: a glimpse of the segmented eyeballs of this iconic scientific specimen. To take it further, you'd need an expensive piece of equipment called a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Typically priced in the $200,000 range, these huge machines can let you zoom in to greater than 1,000,000x, almost to the atomic level-at which point the fly ceases to be a fly and becomes yet another of this world's complex assemblages of protons, neutrons and electrons.

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