Sentences with phrase «tunneling microscope technique»

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They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

Inventions like the scanning tunneling microscope, the atomic force microscope, single - molecule fluorescence techniques in biology and, going back further, the invention of scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes, has really revolutionized what can be done across a vast number of fields.