Abstract
The prospect of manipulating matter on the atomic scale has fascinated scientists for decades. This fascination may be motivated by scientific and technological opportunities, or from a curiosity about the consequences of being able to place atoms in a particular location. Advances in scanning tunneling microscopy have made this prospect a reality; single atoms can be placed at selected positions and structures can be built to a particular design atom-by-atom. Atoms and molecules may be manipulated in a variety of ways by using the interactions present in the tunnel junction of a scanning tunneling microscope. Some of these recent developments and some of the possible uses of atomic and molecular manipulation as a tool for science are discussed.
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Scanning tunneling microscopeCuriosityNanotechnologyAtomic unitsAtom (system on chip)Materials sciencePhysicsComputer sciencePsychologyQuantum mechanicsNeuroscience
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- 1991
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- Volume
- 254
- Issue
- 5036
- Pages
- 1319-1326
- Citations
- 1114
- Access
- Closed
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Joseph A. Stroscio,
D. M. Eigler
(1991).
Atomic and Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
Science
, 254
(5036)
, 1319-1326.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.254.5036.1319
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- DOI
- 10.1126/science.254.5036.1319
- PMID
- 17773601