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Scanning tunneling microscope

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Scope (Ten TV)

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The Scanning Tunnelling Microscope : How it Works and Its Applications

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Atoms in 10 minutes with a Nanosurf scanning tunneling microscope

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Explainer: The Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM)

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. For a STM, good resolution is considered to be 0.1 nm lateral resolution and 0.01 nm depth resolution. With this resolution, individual atoms within materials are routinely imaged and manipulated. The STM can be used not only in ultra-high vacuum but also in air, water, and various other liquid or gas ambients, and at temperatures ranging from near zero kelvin to over 1000 °C.
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