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Applied Scanning Probe Methods II

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-3-540-27453-7

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The sc- ning probes emerged as a new - strument for imaging with a p- cision suf?cient to delineate single atoms. At first there were two – the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or STM, and the Atomic Force Mic- scope, or AFM. The STM relies on electrons tunneling between tip and sample whereas the AFM depends on the force acting on the tip when it was placed near the sample. These were quickly followed by the M- netic Force Microscope, MFM, and the Electrostatic Force Microscope, EFM. The MFM will image a single magnetic bit with features as small as 10nm. With the EFM one can monitor the charge of a single electron.


Subject: Chemistry and Materials Science, Material Science, Microscopy, Nanoscience, PAS, Physical Chemistry, REM, ceramics, polymer, spectroscopy