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Contact: Patrick Bruno
bruno@mpi-halle.de
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

An Elliptical Pen

Caption: An elliptical pen made of cobalt atoms set on a substrate of copper atoms. The electrons in this pen behave like standing waves in a pond.

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics

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