In the study published this week in the journal Science, the research team described how they enhanced an existing imaging technique,
called scanning tunneling microscopy, to capture signals from the Majorana particle at both ends of an atomically thin iron wire stretched on the surface of a crystal of lead.
The team saw the oxygen atoms flow out of the cerium oxide clusters and slowly spread farther and farther away by combining high - resolution
scanning tunneling microscopy with a conventional surface - sensitive technique,
called Auger spectroscopy.