Tunneling microscope, schematic illustration

Fig. VIII-1. Schematic illustration of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and atomic force microscope (AFM). (From Ref. 9.)...

The basis of the scanning tunnelling microscope, illustrated schematically in Figure 3.5, lies in the ability of electronic wavefunctions to penetrate a potential barrier which classically would be forbidden. Instead of ending abruptly at a... 

Figure 3.1 Schematic illustrations of (a) the scanning tunneling and (b) the atomic force microscopes...

FIGURE1 (A) Schematic illustration of a scanning tunneling microscope. (B) Tip trajectory as it tracks surface atomic structure in constant-current mode. 

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