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Physics News Update
Number 68 (Story #2), February 21, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY WITH 1-ANGSTROM RESOLUTION has been achieved by a Glasgow-Cambridge-Arizona State-Berkeley-Stockholm collaboration of scientists, who were imaging a crystal of the radiation-resistant molecule perchlorocoronene. The best resolution at the Cambridge electron microscope one could have expected, 0.32 nm, was extended to 0.1 nm in this case through the manipulation of phase information using "search tree" algorithms similar to those used in game-playing computer programs. The researchers hope to modify their method so that it can be used in the study of other organic molecules less resistant to electron beam damage. (W. Dong et al., Nature, 13 Feb. 1992.)