The picometer-scale wavelength of the fast moving, high energy electron theoretically offers the possibility of unprecedented levels of resolution. This tantalizing prospect for imaging materials at the atomic scale or even finer with the transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been an ongoing challenge for many generations of scientists and engineers, who have continually struggled for more than half a century to design and build instruments having the best possible practical performance.
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