Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: A Breakthrough In Imaging There are numerous examples in science in which a radically different conceptual approach to solving a problem at hand has resulted in a major ...

Researchers have developed easy-to-use, time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy for measuring the movement of electrons in nanostructures at high temporal and spatial resolution, in a manner that ...

Scanning tunneling microscopes capture images of materials with atomic precision and can be used to manipulate individual molecules or atoms. Researchers have been using the instruments for many ...

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We don’t usually think of a microscope as an active instrument, but researchers in Canada have used a scanning tunneling microscope to remove or replace single hydrogen atoms from the surface of ...

Chemistry live: using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers were able for the very first time to witness in detail the activity of catalysts during an electrochemical reaction. The ...

New research shows that the scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), which is used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make ...

The resolution of scanning tunneling microscopes can be improved dramatically by attaching small molecules or atoms to their tip. The resulting images were the first to show the geometric ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy involves bringing an atomically sharp metal tip to within nanometers of the film's surface and applying a voltage.

Objects viewed with scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs) may appear rougher than they really are according to a new computer simulation described in this week's Physical Review Letters.