Cornell researchers, using PARADIM facilities and a novel electron detector, have captured images at a resolution so high they reveal the subtle thermal vibrations of individual atoms. This breakthrough, published in Science, sets a new benchmark for electron microscopy and opens new frontiers in materials imaging.
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Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM)
PARADIM helps users design and create new interface materials — materials that do not exist in nature — with unprecedented properties for the next generation of electronic devices. Creating new interface materials with unprecedented properties, by design rather than by serendipity, is accomplished in PARADIM through a synergistic set of user facilities dedicated to theory (figuring out where to put the atoms for useful behavior), synthesis (putting the atoms in the targeted positions), and characterization (seeing that the atoms are indeed in the desired positions).