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World's fastest microscope freezes time at 1 quintillionth of a second | Physicists at the University of Arizona have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope to capture events lasting just one quintillionth of a second.
The subatomic world is hard to image not just because it’s incredibly tiny, but super fast too. Now physicists at the University of Arizona have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope to capture events lasting just one quintillionth of a second.
Now physicists at the University of Arizona have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope to capture events lasting just one quintillionth of a second. The new work built off research by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huilliere, who generated the first light pulses that were short enough to be measured in attoseconds. For the new study, the researchers developed what they call an “attomicroscope.” First, a pulse of ultraviolet light is fired off into a photocathode, which releases ultra-fast electrons inside the attomicroscope.
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