Abstract
The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) allows us to ‘see’ atoms directly. Seven years ago STM pictures of a ‘quantum corral’ — a circle of iron atoms on a copper surface — revealed what happens when electron waves are confined within a cavity. The latest STM images are of an elliptical corral, in which the signature of an atom at one focus is clearly sensed at the other ‘empty’ focus.
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