蓝色巨人IBM公司同Nion公司共同研制出了一种新型的电子显微镜,这种显微镜使半导体研究人员不仅可以观察单个的原子,而且可以对原子和原子之间的空隙进行观测。IBM研究部门负责该显微镜研究项目的菲利普-巴特森称,这种新型的电子显微镜可以精确测量和描述小于1埃的物体的结构,这个距离只相当于一个氢原子的宽度。 Blue giant IBM and Nion co-developed a new type of electron microscope that allows semiconductor researchers to observe not only individual atoms but also voids between atoms and atoms. Phillip Patterson, who heads the microscope project at IBM Research, said the new electron microscope accurately measures and describes the structure of objects smaller than 1 angstrom, which is equivalent to only one hydrogen atom.