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Two things wrong here: (1) they didn't use an electron microscope, and (2) the microscope they did use was made by a German company Created Gmbh. This experime
by jliebert 3y ago
Two things wrong here: (1) they didn't use an electron microscope, and (2) the microscope they did use was made by a German company Created Gmbh.
This experiment was not done with an electron microscope, which shoots free electrons at a material at very high energies. Instead, they used "Kelvin Force Probe" microscopy which basically measures the electrostatic force from atoms on an ultra-fine tip of metal. Sounds crazy, but it's a technique that has been around for decades.
- maverwa 3y agoA tiny correction if I may, I think its "CreaTec", not "Created". I think they are refering to this one: https://www.createc.de/LT-STMAFM/ https://www.createc.de/LT-STMAFM/
- Wildgoose 3y agoWhich looks like an auto-correct issue - I regularly curse when a correctly spelled word (perhaps including partial capitalisation) is "helpfully" corrected to a valid word that is meaningless nonsense.