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Nature Photonics · 2026

They filmed an electron mid-jump.

Attosecond lightwave scanning tunnelling microscopy: single electrons caught tunnelling in under a femtosecond, confined to a few ångströms, then used to photograph one copper atom. With a live Schrödinger simulation.

988 as burst 8.7 Å reach 1 atom imaged 8 animations
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