scanning probe microscope

  • 1scanning probe microscope — A microscope used to study surface features by moving a sharp probe over the object s surface (e.g., the scanning tunneling microscope) …

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  • 2scanning tunneling microscope — A type of scanning probe microscope used to image a surface by moving a fine probe over it at a constant height, which is maintained by keeping a constant electron flow (tunneling current) between the tip and surface …

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  • 3Scanning helium microscope — may refer to: * Scanning Helium Ion Microscope *Atomic nanoscope, which was proposed and discussed in the literature, but is not yet competitive with optical microscope, electron microscope, Scanning Helium Ion Microscope and various scanning… …

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  • 4Scanning Hall probe microscope — The scanning Hall probe microscope (SHPM) is a class of scanning probe microscope which incorporates the accurate sample approach and positioning of the scanning tunnelling microscope with a semiconductor Hall sensor. This combination allows a… …

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  • 5Scanning tunneling microscope — Image of reconstruction on a clean Gold(100) surface …

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  • 6Scanning electron microscope — These pollen grains taken on an SEM show the characteristic depth of field of SEM micrographs …

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  • 7Scanning Electron Microscope — Staubprobe von den WTC Anschlägen mit dem Rasterelektronenmikroskop aufgenommen Als Rasterelektronenmikroskop (REM) (englisch Scanning Electron Microscope, SEM) bezeichnet man ein Elektronenmikroskop, bei dem ein Elektronenstrahl in einem… …

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  • 8Scanning probe microscopy — Part of a series of articles on Nanotechnology …

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  • 9scanning tunneling microscope — scan′ning tun′neling mi croscope n. phs elo an electronic microscope that produces images of atomic structures by moving an extremely fine probe over the surface of a material abbr. : STM Etymology: 1980–85 …

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  • 10Near-field scanning optical microscope — Near field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM/SNOM) is a microscopic technique for nanostructure investigation that breaks the far field resolution limit by exploiting the properties of evanescent waves. This is done by placing the detector very… …

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