SuperSTEM 3 Microscope Is Ready To Uncover The Deepest Atomic Secrets

Scientists across the globe are working on sub-atomic levels to unleash & unlock the mysteries of our world. With UK's SuperSTEM microscope (Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope), the journey has only become a tad bit easier. Taking a step further in this direction, EPSRC and SuperSTEM together celebrated the installation of the new SuperSTEM 3 microscope only a couple of days back. With SuperSTEM 3, they've become the world’s first user facility for ultra-high spatial resolution vibrational spectroscopy. The microscope is a Nion HERMES instrument and has bagged the title of being the world's most powerful microscope with atomic scale imaging. It has a energy resolution of 10 meV which makes is 30x better than the microscopes found in universities around the world.

SuperSTEM is the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Led by the University of Leeds and joined by the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford, the SuperSTEM academic consortium's location is a purpose-built low-vibration lab on the STFC Daresbury Campus. It not only supports research in multiple disciplines, but also allows access to state-of-the-art data analysis and industry-leading instrumentation.


The SuperSTEM 3 microscope can be used to capture images of objects that are a 100,00,00 times smaller than a human hair and also analyse the material of these objects. Researchers can use the microscope to identify the atoms, the sub-atomic particles, but observe the strength of the bonds between them. Other than that, among the many applications of the microscope, there's research related to optical engineering, semiconductors, solar capturing, plasmonic materials etc.

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