Juan Carlos Idrobo

This evidence bundle centres on a Nature news feature reporting that Bruker will ship GAIA, described as the first scanning transmission electron microscope to operate stably near absolute zero with liquid helium, to three laboratories in Canada, Germany and the United States, where it can image materials at about −266 °C (7 kelvin) for 30 hours or more, while tracing the earlier route: a 2025 US-reported TEM attachment reaching −253 °C (20 kelvin) with atomic-resolution imaging stable for more than ten hours, a condenZero liquid-helium attachment at around 4 kelvin for 24 hours that did not aim for atomic resolution, and Idrobo's 2021 comment on aberration correction combined with further instrument developments.

This evidence bundle centres on a Nature news feature reporting that Bruker will ship GAIA, described as the first scanning transmission electron microscope to operate stably near absolute zero with liquid helium, to three laboratories in Canada, Germany and the United States, where it can image materials at about −266 °C (7 kelvin) for 30 hours or more, while tracing the earlier route: a 2025 US-reported TEM attachment reaching −253 °C (20 kelvin) with atomic-resolution imaging stable for more than ten hours, a condenZero liquid-helium attachment at around 4 kelvin for 24 hours that did not aim for atomic resolution, and Idrobo's 2021 comment on aberration correction combined with further instrument developments.