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Stroscio J A and Eigler D M 1991 Atomic and molecular manipulation with the scanning tunneling microscope Science 254 319... 

Eigler D M and Schweizer E K 1990 Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope Nature 344 524... 

This slow diffusion of a crucial new technique can be compared with the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) by Binnig and Rohrer, first made public in 1983, like X-ray diffraction rewarded with the Nobel Prize 3 years later, but unlike X-ray diffraction quickly adopted throughout the world. That invention, of comparable importance to the discoveries of 1912,now(2 decades later) has sprouted numerous variants and has virtually created a new branch of surface science. With it, investigators can not only see individual surface atoms but they can also manipulate atoms singly (Eigler and Schweitzer 1990). This rapid adoption of... 

Our laboratories are currently equipped with three UHV Omicron microscopes, a variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a room-temperature atomic force microscope (AFM)/STM, and a low-temperature liquid helium bath cryostat STM, all of which are currently driven by Omicron Scala software and electronics. 

Hamers RJ (1989) Atomic-resolution surface spectroscopy with the scanning tunneling microscope. Ann Rev Phys Chem 40 531-559... 

Eigler D, Lutz CP, Rudge WE (1991) An atomic switch realized with the scanning tunneling microscope. Nature 352 600... 

Hydrogen Bonds Molecular Machines Building with Atoms Scanning Tunneling Microscope Nanomaterials... 

The field ion microscope is perhaps the simplest of all atomic resolution microscopes as far as mechanical and electrical designs are concerned. The atomic resolution microscopes, at the present time, include also different types of electron microscopes,1 the scanning tunneling microscope (STM)2 and the atomic force microscope (AFM)2 Before we discuss the general design features of the field ion microscope it is perhaps worthwhile to describe the first field ion microscope,3 and a very simple FIM4 which can be constructed in almost any laboratory. The first field ion microscope, shown in Fig. 3.1, is essentially a field emission microscope5 except that it is now equipped with a palladium tube with... 

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