Artistic Rendering of the Metal Tip of the Special Microscope used to Map Surfaces (IMAGE)

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Artistic Rendering of the Metal Tip of the Special Microscope used to Map Surfaces

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This image shows an artistic rendering of the metal tip of the special microscope used to perform 3-D force field mapping of materials at Yale University. The microscope is a unique combined scanning tunneling/atomic force microscope that can operate at temperatures close to absolute zero. It can simultaneously map out the chemical and electrical properties of surfaces at the atomic scale, while also describing the precise layout and identity of the atoms that make up the surface of the material.

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Udo Schwarz, Yale University

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