Re: Industrial STM applications?


Phillip Huggan <cdnprodigy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello. I expect to have around ten homemade Scanning Tunneling
> Microscopes constructed in the next year or so.

Why ten, rather than, say, one or two? Are they all of the same design?

> I'm seeking ideas for
> potential industrial applications for them. I'm aware that I might be
> able to modify probe tips with STMs, perhaps as sensors of some sort.
> Does anyone know of any potential products or services which can be
> facilitated by STMs?

I don't believe anyone uses them to perform operations or quality assurance
on products before they leave a factory. (Excluding sampling.)

You'll find them in labs, of course. Semiconductor industry uses them for
various purposes. AFMs tend to be the tool of choice over STMs when it
comes to imaging in the biosciences, though.

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