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    A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of scanning probe microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned...
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  • of the scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. The first successful scanning tunneling microscope experiment...
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  • quantum tunneling across a barrier; in this instance, the physical distance between the tip and the sample The scanning tunneling microscope is used to...
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  • The electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope (EC-STM) is a scanning tunneling microscope that measures the structures of surfaces and electrochemical...
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  • atomic nuclei. Tunneling applications include the tunnel diode, quantum computing, flash memory, and the scanning tunneling microscope. Tunneling limits the...
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    jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope. Binnig was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska...
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    of microscopes are the fluorescence microscope, electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and...
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    types of scanning microscopy including scanning probe microscopy (which includes AFM, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and near-field scanning optical...
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    the electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope. 1991: Kelvin probe force microscope invented. 2008: The scanning helium microscope is introduced.[non-primary...
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  • operation of a photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM) is analogous to the operation of an electron scanning tunneling microscope, with the primary distinction...
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    developments. The atomic force microscope (AFM) and the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) are two early versions of scanning probes that launched nanotechnology...
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  • Quantum microscopy (category Microscopes)
    The first microscope to do so was the scanning tunneling microscope, which paved the way for development of the photoionization microscope and the quantum...
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  • Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) is a type of scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that can provide detailed information of magnetic...
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  • convergence of experimental advances such as the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, with the elucidation...
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    for contacting nanostructures uses the tips of a multi-tip scanning tunneling microscope—in analogy to the test leads of a multimeter used at macroscale...
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    A Boy and His Atom (category Scanning probe microscopy)
    length, it was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope, a device that magnifies them 100 million times. These two-atom...
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  • is the process of moving single atoms on a substrate using Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). The atomic manipulation is a surface science technique...
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    high-frequency signals. In scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), the tip/air/substrate (metal-insulator-metal) can be viewed as a tunnel junction. Zhu, Jian-Gang...
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    such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) enable their visualization at the surfaces of solids. The microscope uses the quantum tunneling phenomenon...
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    controlling the environmental temperature and by positioning a scanning tunneling microscope tip. Another definition[whose?] is a robot that allows precise...
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  • Binnig - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope Heinrich Rohrer - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope Vicki Colvin Director for the...
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  • and Heinrich Rohrer invented the first atomic level microscope called a scanning tunneling microscope that allowed scientists to see individual atoms 1991:...
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  • IBM (atoms) (category Scanning probe microscopy)
    of a technology capable of manipulating individual atoms. A scanning tunneling microscope was used to arrange 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate...
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    Atomic force microscope (AFM) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) Scanning ion-conductance microscopy (SICM) Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) Transmission...
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    He is a pioneer in scanning probe microscopy, who made major contributions to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, the AFM, and AFM techniques...
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  • solid surface to cover the largest distance with the use of a scanning tunneling microscope. The first race consisted of overcoming a distance of 100 nanometer...
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    Scanning Hall probe microscope (SHPM) is a variety of a scanning probe microscope which incorporates accurate sample approach and positioning of the scanning...
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  • mechanochemistry has been performed at cryogenic temperatures using scanning tunneling microscopes. So far, such devices provide the closest approach to fabrication...
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  • used. Scanning Thermal Microscopy A method for observing local temperatures and temperature gradients on a surface. Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)...
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