GoKawiilBruker to ship GAIA, a liquid-helium-cooled electron microscope, in early 2025
Bruker plans to deliver its new scanning transmission electron microscope, called GAIA, to research labs in Canada, Germany and the United States by early next year. The instrument uses liquid helium to keep samples stable near absolute zero, as cold as about 7 kelvin, allowing atomic-resolution imaging for 30 hours or more. This follows separate work last year by U.S. researchers who built a similar cooling attachment reaching 20 kelvin for over ten hours of stable imaging.
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Cooling samples to near absolute zero suppresses atomic vibrations that blur images at room temperature, letting scientists observe quantum behaviors in materials that are otherwise invisible. Longer, more stable imaging sessions at these extreme temperatures could accelerate discovery of new quantum materials relevant to superconductors, quantum computing hardware and advanced electronics.
- Bruker's GAIA microscope cools samples to about 7 kelvin using liquid helium.
- It can maintain atomic-resolution imaging stability for 30+ hours, far longer than prior systems.
- The first units will go to labs in Canada, Germany and the U.S. in early 2025, aiding quantum materials research.
Source: nature.com — Gil, 2026-09-22
Published there as: “This super-cold microscope could spur a quantum revolution”
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