Scientists in UCI's Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

Scientists in UCI's Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit

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'We have a microscope now that can resolve atoms, and we're using it to look inside molecules, which was unthinkable only a few years ago,' says study co-author V. Ara Apkarian (right), director of UCI's Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit. 'What we're seeing at this scale is truly amazing.' Here, he and study co-author Joonhee Lee, a CaSTL research scientist, stand over the femtosecond titanium sapphire laser used in their experiments. The machine in the background is CaSTL's ultra-high-vacuum cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope.

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Steve Zylius / UCI

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