The power of this technique is that it is possible to determine local physical properties directly from measurements of shifts of the individual atom positions. The conventional concept of image ...

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The paper provides a detailed explanation of how the profile of the light collected in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) ...

NIST researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to move a single cobalt atom (blue sphere) in a small molecule back and forth between two positions on a crystal surface (first two images).