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The Microscope That Uses Quantum Physics to Trace Atoms

12th - Higher Ed
In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet of metal.
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University of Virginia

Uva Virtual Lab: Scanning Tunneling Microscope (Stm)

9th - 10th
Find a description of the operation of Nanosurf Inc's "easyScan" scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Virtual reality is used to take apart the microscope and show how electron tunneling is used to measure the shape of sample surfaces...