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
Christoph Gerber
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Christoph Gerber is a Swiss physicist and professor at the University of Basel. He is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope, together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate.
Gerber in 2013
