Three decades after its invention, scanning probe microscopy has become a widely used
method in laboratories as diverse as industrial magnetic storage development or structural …

Objects smaller than the wave lengths of visible light are a staple of contemporary sci ence
and technology. Biologists study single molecules of protein or DNA; materials scientists …

New forms of imaging in science have nearly always led to major advances, especially at
the nanoscale, and the pace of these developments has increased dramatically in recent …

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

A practical introduction to basic theory and contemporary applications across a wide range
of research disciplines Over the past two decades, scanning probe microscopies and …

This book presents the physical and technical foundation of the state of the art in applied
scanning probe techniques. It constitutes a timely and comprehensive overview of SPM …

In this article, aimed at the non-specialist microscopist rather than the experienced user, we
introduce the fundamentals of Scanning Electron Microscopy and the information that can be …

In the early 1980's scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) dazzled the world with the first real-
space images of the surface of silicon. Now, SPMs are used in a wide variety of disciplines …

Scanning Probe Microscopes: Applications in Science and Technology explains, analyzes,
and demonstrates the most widely used microscope in the family of microscopes--the …

The ability of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) to characterize materials has
increased tremendously since its inception on a commercial basis at Cambridge, United …