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... scanned to build up an image from the detected signal . The confocal scanning microscope has the unique ability to produce images of a single plane , or optical section , of an object . Because the rejection of scattered and ex ...
... scanned to build up an image from the detected signal . The confocal scanning microscope has the unique ability to produce images of a single plane , or optical section , of an object . Because the rejection of scattered and ex ...
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... Scanning tunneling microscopes The scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) appeared in 1981 when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon , Switz . , set out to build a tool for studying the ...
... Scanning tunneling microscopes The scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) appeared in 1981 when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon , Switz . , set out to build a tool for studying the ...
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... scanning tunneling microscope by Binnig and Rohrer ( see above Scanning tunneling microscopes ) . In this type of micro- scope , the image is obtained by recording the electron current induced in an extremely fine tip as it is passed ...
... scanning tunneling microscope by Binnig and Rohrer ( see above Scanning tunneling microscopes ) . In this type of micro- scope , the image is obtained by recording the electron current induced in an extremely fine tip as it is passed ...
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