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is normally a round, slightly blurred speck. The researchers have distorted it into a dumbbell shape (the image shows the theoretical prediction). The direction in which the dumbbell is pointing ...

The paper provides a detailed explanation of how the profile of the light collected in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) ...

NIST researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to move a single cobalt atom (blue sphere) in a small molecule back and forth between two positions on a crystal surface (first two images).