The scanning tunnelling microscope
Duration :
3.24
Copyright :
Synchrotron SOLEIL
Realization :
Jean-Yves Pipaud EPSIM
Date :
2010
The scanning tunnelling microscope (developed by IBM laboratories in Zurich in 1981), uses a very sharp tip consisting of only a few atoms which hovers over the surface of a sample at a distance of one nanometre. This technique, which is available at SOLEIL’s surfaces laboratory, is a tool that complements synchrotron techniques by facilitating the study of matter at the atomic level.
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