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Imaging the Rhodium Atom with a Conventional High Resolution Electron Microscope

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THE ability of microscopes to make single atoms of metals visible has been reported by Muller1 and more recently by Crewe et al.2. Muller has been working with the direct imaging method of field-ion microscopy, which produces images of single atoms in the surface of solid specimens. Crewe used a high resolution scanning microscope developed in his laboratory to image thorium and uranium atoms in an organic molecule. In neither case was a conventional electron microscope used.

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PRESTRIDGE, E., YATES, D. Imaging the Rhodium Atom with a Conventional High Resolution Electron Microscope. Nature 234, 345–347 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234345a0

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