STEM Club

[403]

I am currently in the same room with a scanning-tunnelling electron microscope. Its carrying case is the size of a large briefcase. So far, we're not being allowed to play with it.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Holy...man those have gotten small. The last ST-electron microscope I played with filled a small room!

[403]

The ones used for cutting-edge research still fill a room. It's hard to make an elaborate vacuum chamber and set of vibration dampeners small. The little ones don't require a vacuum and have a certain amount of fault-tolerance, but have corresponding limits on the resolution you can expect from them.

[jacel]

Just remember, the first rule of STEM club is you do not talk about STEM club. Unless it's already peer-reviewed.

[403]

That actually came up. One of the grad students couldn't talk about a paper because it was in review.