The intention of the project is to develop a transmission electron microscope capable of 0.05 nanometres (0.5 x 10⁻¹⁰m) resolution, about half the size of a hydrogen atom. As electron microscope lenses normally produce a significant amount of aberration, a complex system of lenses to correct the aberrated images is required.

The first TEAM microscope will be based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and is intended to become operational around 2007/2008. The other laboratories involved are

Argonne National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

References

• Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Microscope at Physorg.com January 22, 2008. Accessed January 2008
• TEAM Project main site