Scanning Tunneling Microscopes

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• Sharper than ever: Physicists make molecular vibrations more detectable
  

  In molecules, the atoms vibrate with characteristic patterns and frequencies. Vibrations are therefore an important tool for studying molecules and molecular processes such as chemical reactions. Although scanning tunnelling microscopes can be used to image individual molecules, their vibrations hav more

• NanoCar Race II: Eight teams from three continents gather for the world's smallest race - the race of the molecules
  

  When they hear the term "24-hour race," many people might think of Le Mans, Daytona, or even the Nürburgring. Images of colorful cars racing by at breakneck speed, accompanied by deafening noise and the smell of burning high-performance fuels may appear in the mind's eye. But at the NanoCar Race eve more

• A unique scanning tunnelling microscope with magnetic cooling to study quantum effects developed
  

  Scanning tunnelling microscopes capture images of materials with atomic precision and can be used to manipulate individual molecules or atoms. Researchers have been using the instruments for many years to explore the world of nanoscopic phenomena. A new approach by physicists at Forschungszentrum Jü more