electron
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A quantum computer electron microscope based on the concept is now being constructed at TU Wien.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
By doing so, the researchers hope to extract more useful information from each electron, potentially allowing scientists to form clearer images while exposing delicate samples to fewer electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
But researchers in Austria say conventional electron microscopes may be leaving valuable information on the table.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The basic imaging process still relies on electrons, just as it does in a conventional electron microscope.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
In a sense, as Dennis Overbye has put it, an electron doesn’t exist until it is observed.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Understanding how electrons are distributed through those structures can help chemists explain why molecules have particular properties and why they undergo certain chemical reactions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
If the system works as expected, it could open a new approach to electron microscopy in which researchers gain more information while exposing sensitive samples to fewer electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
One possibility involved many-body effects produced by collective interactions among numerous electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
One is cyclotron energy, which comes from the orbital motion of electrons through a magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
But this technology was still not capable of “approaching, much less surpassing, the success of the radioactive elements, in providing us with high-speed electrons and high-speed atoms.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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