IBM's SPM Image Gallery

This is a very interesting and humorous spot. It contains an introduction to scanning tunneling microscopy and graphical representation (see the Lobby). The STM image gallery includes artistic impressions of metal surfaces and designs created by placing atoms on the surface with the STM.

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Moving molecules at room temperature

The demonstration that individual molecules can be moved and precisely positioned on a surface by means of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), without lowering the temperature to near absolute zero, represents a key step on the road to creating new atomic and molecular structures .

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy from Birth to Adolescence

Nobel lectrure, Dec. 8, 1986, by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics by one half to Professor. Ernst Ruska, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope and the other half, jointly to Dr Gerd Binnig and Dr Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope.

Link: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986