Ion-Sharpened STM Probe (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Ion-Sharpened STM Probe

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This is a traditionally etched tungsten STM probe (left), sharpened to a 1-nanometer point after bombarding it with ions (right).

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Joseph Lyding

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