Find a description of the operation of Nanosurf Inc's "easyScan" scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Virtual reality is used to take apart the microscope and show how electron tunneling is used to measure the shape of sample surfaces down to the scale of individual atoms.

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microscopes

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scanning tunneling microscope, stm, tunneling microscope

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• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional