Open Source Scanning Tunneling Microscope

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This microscope is a project by Sacha De’Angeli of ChemHacker.

STM system is a non-optical, high-resolution, microscopy technique that is often used to obtain images of a conductive surface at the atomic scale. A sharp metal tip is placed only a few nano-meters from surface, a current is applied between the two (Tunneling Current). The amount of current produced is exponentially dependent on the distance between the tip and the surface. Scanned points relative to the Z-position of the tunneling tip will produce a topographical image of the sample surface. If the resolution is high enough, the resulting image will show individual atoms.

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