Conceptual illustration of atomic-scale double-slit interference (IMAGE)
Caption
(a) The classical double-slit experiment performed by Young using light (slit spacing ~1 mm, propagation distance ~1 m).
(b) Schematic of atomic-scale interference in which a pair of neighboring silicon atomic columns act as a “double slit” for a focused electron probe (spacing 136 pm; crystal thickness ~10 nm; distance to detector ~10 cm).
Credit
Koudai Tabata / University of Tokyo
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