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... surface , and monitoring the strain associated with the fab- rication of microstructures . Scanning tunneling microscopes The scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) appeared in 1981 when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of the IBM Zürich ...
... surface , and monitoring the strain associated with the fab- rication of microstructures . Scanning tunneling microscopes The scanning tunneling microscope ( STM ) appeared in 1981 when Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of the IBM Zürich ...
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Surface prepared by being heated in vacuum to temperatures so reconstruc- high that the atoms there rearrange their positions in a tion process called " surface reconstruction . " The reconstruction of the silicon surface designated ...
Surface prepared by being heated in vacuum to temperatures so reconstruc- high that the atoms there rearrange their positions in a tion process called " surface reconstruction . " The reconstruction of the silicon surface designated ...
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... surface and extends beyond the bound water , the nature of the water changes either abruptly or gradually to that of liquid water . Ions and molecules adsorbed on the clay mineral surface exert a major influence on the thickness of the ...
... surface and extends beyond the bound water , the nature of the water changes either abruptly or gradually to that of liquid water . Ions and molecules adsorbed on the clay mineral surface exert a major influence on the thickness of the ...
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