Liquid He Enables Breakthrough in Quantum Microscopy

Sep 11, 2025
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Researchers at the University of Michigan and Harvard developed a liquid-helium-cooled sample holder that allows electron microscopes to keep specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours with atomic-level resolution.

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