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- Date: 21 Aug 92 22:45:50 GMT
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- New Hitachi microscope can discern hydrogen atom. Hitachi
- Ltd. has developed an analysis-transmission electron micro-
- scope with the world's highest capacity for information
- analysis. The microscope can discern distances of 0.11
- nanometers, the size of a hydrogen atom, which is equivalent
- to reading a newspaper from a satellite. Up to now, the most
- powerful microscope, also a Hitachi, could detect distances
- of 0.16 nanometers. Using an electron beam, the new instru-
- ment can be used for elemental analysis of super-minute
- small parts 0.7 nanometers apart. The microscope should
- prove useful in the development of new materials like high-
- temperature superconductors and in analyzing and evaluating
- electronic devices with minute structures like super high-
- speed arithmetic elements and high-integrated memories. In
- August, Hitachi will announce its new development at a meet-
- ing of an American academy of electron microscopes in Bos-
- ton. The company eventually plans to combine the microscope
- with image-processing technology for marketing. (Source:
- Nikkei Telecom 8/3/92.)
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