The scanning tunneling microscope has a small probe which actually more like "feels" the size of the atoms and reads this out on a computer screen. The probe can pick up individual atoms. IBM used a STM years ago to spell I B M with uranium atoms and took a picture of it. But one does not actually directly "see" the atoms.
a scanning probe microscope is needed to observe a single atom
an electron microscope
a
compound light microscope
optical microscope and TEM
an electron microscope
The light microscope and the electron microscope refers to the type of microscope that is used to view the non- living specimen. The non-living specimen is usually placed in a slide.
The compound microscope is the simple microscope used in the early days for higher magnification to view specimens such as cells. The compound microscope is the standard microscope used commonly nowadays. The digital microscope is a type of optical microscope which makes use of camera and optics to be able to view the images from the microscope to the computer.
microscope
microscope
No. No matter how powerful an optical microscope is, it can never be used to see atoms. Atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You can, however, view atoms using an electron microscope.
micoscope
compound light microscope
microscope
Electron microscope.
First of all atoms are invisible we will never see them okay. But you can use a electric microscope to observe and study them. Sadly they are huge and expensive
microscope
Single lens microscope
An optical, biological microscope.
In 1981 the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) was invented. The STM has ultrahigh resolution and can image single atoms.