Seeing - and sometimes moving - atoms. Scanning tunneling microscopes are opening up atomic landscapes
Journal Article
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· Indust. Chem.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6692181
Less than two years after the scanning and tunneling microscope won the Nobel prize for its inventors, scientists Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM's Zurich Research Center, the technique appears to be on the brink of changing how physicists and chemists see - and interact with - the atomic landscape of many surfaces. The promise of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is immense. Unlike any other instrument, the microscope can produce three-dimensional or real-space images of single atoms on a surface. Moreover, it obtains such resolution in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), air, and a variety of liquids, including water.
- OSTI ID:
- 6692181
- Journal Information:
- Indust. Chem.; (United States), Journal Name: Indust. Chem.; (United States) Vol. 9:5; ISSN IDCHE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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