A scanning tunneling microscope is a type of scanning probe microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, the
Image of reconstruction on a clean (100) surface of gold
A 1986 STM from the collection of Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
A large STM setup at the London Centre for Nanotechnology
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Gerd Karl Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Scanning tunneling microscope
…microscope (STM) is a type of scanning probe microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, then at IBM Zürich, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. STM senses the surface by using an extremely sharp conducting tip that can…
Binnig in 2013