They have achieved an image resolution at 0.6 angstrom, breaking the previous record of 0.7 angstrom which the lab set earlier this year.
An angstrom, the smallest wavelength of light, is about 500,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair.
Researchers say being able to see how materials bond together at an atomic level could prove a significant benefit to the semiconductor industry, chemistry and in the development of new materials.
Exciting times; we are now seeing pictures of extra-solar planets, and the tiny atom too.
