Big picture begins with smallest details.
Nan Yao is the sort of person who focuses on the smallest details. He is the director of the Imaging and Analysis Center at the Princeton Materials Institute, a place where faculty members come to capture glimpses of everything from fruit fly cells to clusters of atoms in high-tech materials. Current news and events Releases to the media Weekly Bulletin Calendar of events Located in the first floor of the Materials Institute's Bowen Hall, the imaging center consists of seven room-sized electron microscopes and computing labs for analyzing the images they produce. But it is more than just equipment. Yao, a physicist by training, is a master of the painstaking and creative process of harnessing a microscope's power to create clear images.