Light-based method enables precise control of ultrafast electron flow in a scanning tunneling microscope

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- What would it take to watch an electron move through a material? Researchers would need to see individual atoms and capture an electron's motion at incredibly short timescales. A Technion-led team has brought those two capabilities together in a scanning tunneling microscope, using carefully…