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DIY Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope

Posted by chrisd on from the not-quite-a-home-project dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Quote: To give everybody an opportunity to make his own "hands on" experience with the Nanoworld we provide all information to build up and use some of the standard equipment of this fascinating field of science, starting with the Nobel-Prize-Winner of 1986: the Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope (STM). Just follow these handy Instructions" While construction of a stm from these instructions isn't cake, it will give you a good idea of what goes into the building of such an instrument.

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  1. Now THIS is News for Geeks! by pedro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Very cool, and astoundingly understandable, considering that the authors aren't native english speakers.
    It's so neat how they've adapted what, after all, are some fairly pedestrian and accessible tech to achieve such a noble goal!
    I especially enjoyed the brute-force electrochemical solution to producing a tip.
    Massively k3w1!

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  2. Re:How interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Particularly the professor's name, in the lower right...

    Prof. Fuchs - which is in German means Fox. So his name is Mr. Fox. What's your point?