Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling

The scanning tunneling microscope (STM), invented at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in 1981, was an almost-instant success. Its inventors, Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig, had to wait only five years before they were awarded the Nobel Prize alongside Ernst Ruska, ...

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