Dr. Maximillian Haider of CEOS, together with Professor Harald Rose and Dr. Knut Urban, received the 2011 Wolf Prize in Physics for their development of aberration-corrected electron microscopy.
All the members of the Tonomura Project, as collaborators, offer him congratulations on his receiving a highly-honored award next to the Nobel Prize
There are a large number of technical challenges to be solved before we can manufacture our target machine "an Atomic–Resolution Holography Electron Microscope". These technical challenges include the development of the following extremely sophisticated apparatus and instruments: aberration-corrected lenses, discharge-free high-voltage cables, high-stability power sources, discharge-free, non-vibrant acceleration tubes, ultra-stable sample stages, high-efficiency, and high-resolution TV cameras.
Collaborating with a large number of domestic manufacturers, we have been developing most of these technologies under the MEXT^＊ Project on "Development of Basic Technologies for High-Brightness, Monochromatic Electron Beams" (2006-2009). In addition, we have been collaborating with Dr. Haider for more than seven years on the R&D of the aberration correction technology, the most important technology.
In November last year, Dr. Haider and Professor Rose were among the 33 invited speakers at Tonomura FIRST International Workshop on "Challenges to New Developments in Electron Microscopy." At the end of the workshop, Professor Archie Howie, the workshop coordinator, stated that "The new high voltage project will surely present a formidable challenge in many aspects of instrumentation and addressing this will surely have a wider beneficial spin-off to the rest of electron microscopy." With these international and domestic supports received at the workshop, we are now taking on a difficult challenge of developing an atomic-resolution holography electron microscope.
＊ MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.