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Knowing nothing about Electron Microscopes, I found the design of the motion mechanism very clever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130927064954/http://www.geociti

Knowing nothing about Electron Microscopes, I found the design of the motion mechanism very clever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130927064954/http://www.geocities.com/spm_stm/Disk_Scanner_Exp.html http://web.archive.org/web/20130927064954/http://www.geociti... http://dberard.com/home-built-stm/scan-head/ http://dberard.com/home-built-stm/scan-head/

femto 11y ago
Also of interest is that the inventor, John Alexander, submitted a patent application (US5866902), then withdrew the application. Perhaps this was done to establish prior art in the USPTO's database, and prevent someone else from patenting it?