scanning probe microscope

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Any of a number of devices capable of producing images of individual atoms and molecules on surfaces of materials. (See also nanotechnology.)

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The IBM team turned to a scanning probe microscope, which has a needle-sharp tip that ‘feels’ a material’s shape.

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