Sentence examples for tunnel microscope from inspiring English sources
"It turns out that the small mechanical tip on a scanning tunnel microscope can image surfaces at a much better resolution than an electron beam," he said.
scanning tunnel microscope.
In our previous articles [26 28], we have formulated the extrinsic SHE in semiconductor heterostructures with an artificial potential created by antidot, scanning tunnel microscope (STM) tip, etc.
Herein, we develop a useful technique for high-precision, large-domain 3D manipulation of semiconductor nanowires for fabrication nanodevices, which was performed using a new scanning tunnel microscope (STM) - transmission electron microscope (TEM) holder commercialized by Nanofactory Instruments AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
This paper first reviews the fundamental concepts of microscopic imaging and introduces the technical features and associated clinical applications of optical microscopes, electron microscopes, scanning tunnel microscopes, and fluorescence microscopes.
They called it the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM).
They include the modern descendants of the scanning tunnelling microscope, and tools for writing, printing and even picking things up.
The construction involved painstakingly pushing individual carbon-monoxide molecules across a copper surface using a scanning tunnelling microscope (essentially a sharp metal tip).
Of course, not all of these patents ranked with revolutionary I.B.M. inventions of the past -- like the hard-disk drive and the scanning tunnelling microscope, the first microscope capable of forming images of individual atoms.
Using a scanning tunnelling microscope, carbon monoxide molecules were arranged on a copper surface into a 45 by 25 nanometre picture of a boy playing with a single molecule.
For decades afterwards, though, researchers could do little more than theorise along with Feynman.That changed in 1980, when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory filed a patent for a "scanning tunnelling microscope", which came into use in 1981 and garnered the pair of researchers a Nobel prize in 1986.
