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- Subject: home built stm
- Message-ID: <Jan.11.23.56.43.1993.23981@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:56:44 GMT
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- Re: home built stm
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- >How hard is it to build an STM or AFM? Does it seem like a project
- >that could be made on the scale of 'The Amateur Scientist' series
- >from Scientific American? I have heard that getting the monatomic
- >tipped probe is perhaps the hardest part. Could standard
- >electronics crystals, removed from their cases, be used to position
- >the probe? How noisy can the controlling current be? How hard is
- >it to observe tunneling current?
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- I haven't done it but I am planning to. With a PC and some
- electronics hacking it should be possible. Here are some leads:
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- K. Besocke, "An Easily Operable Scanning Tunneling Microscope"
- Surface Science 181, 145-154, (1987)
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- R.A. Lewis et al., "Student Scanning Tunneling Microscope"
- Am. J. Phys. 59 (1), 38-42, (1991)
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