If ordinary electron microscopes have wavelengths 5,000 times or more shorter than visible light, why can't they see atoms?

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Answer by niels nielsen for If ordinary electron microscopes have wavelengths...

March 21, 2021, 1:08 pm

They aren't. Individual atom locations can be seen in transmission electron microscopy and field-ion microscopy.

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If ordinary electron microscopes have wavelengths 5,000 times or more shorter...

March 21, 2021, 1:08 pm

Electron microscopes can easily 'see' down to .1 nanometers (1 ångstrom) or less, correct? And a single hydrogen atom, in its ground state, is about .106 nanometers (Bohr diameter) wide, right?So why...

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