Re: Industrial STM applications?



Phillip Huggan wrote:
> Hello. I expect to have around ten homemade Scanning Tunneling Microscopes
> constructed in the next year or so. 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?
> Thx.
>
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You might find a use for STM's in security, it might be lucrative to
scan flat metalic objects, or pieces of metalic objects for tell tail
deformations that, if the object is stolen can be used to identify it.


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