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Scanning tunneling microscope

The scanning tunneling microscope or STM, was invented in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of IBM's Zurich Lab in Zurich, Switzerland. t is used to obtain images of conductive surfaces at an atomic scale 2 x 10-10 m or 0.2 nanometre.

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