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The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery
An atomic-scale view of surfaces:
Some of the finest scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of metal surfaces, obtained by theSurface Physics Group at theLegacy Pages of the Institute of Applied Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria.
For an overview of some more recent results of our group, mainly on oxides, see thecurrent pages of the Surface Physics Group.
What you will find in this exhibition...
- The Scanning Tunneling Microscope
What it is and how it works
- Dislocations
Defects of the crystal lattice
- Surface Reconstructions
Rearrangement of atoms at the surface
- Crystallography of Iron Films
fcc, bcc and the transition
- Chemical Contrast in STM
Surface chemical order on alloys
- Adsorption and Adsorbates
When gas molecules get stuck on surfaces
- Segregation of Impurity Atoms
Images of their surface structure
- Growth of Lead on Copper
An atomic maze and other surprises
- Growth of Copper in Lead
Unexpected, but explicable
- Electron Waves and Orbitals
Interference of surface and bulk states
- Non-metals, too!
Oxides and grains of salt…
If you want to see more beautifulSTM images from another lab: You may have a look at theSTM Gallery of IBM Almaden Research Center.
If you want to, feel free to download single images or the wholeIAP/TU WienSTM Gallery for private or school/academic use, but please do not remove the margins with the source of the images. Commercial use with written permission only.
Whom you should blame for errors on this page:
Michael Schmid,IAP/TU Wien ([email address: lastname @ this server · enable javascript to see it]).
Funding by the AustrianFonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) is gratefully acknowledged.
Impressum und Offenlegung gemäß Mediengesetz: Inhaber der Webseiten unter www2.iap.tuwien.ac.at ist das Institut für Angewandte Physik, TU Wien, 1040 Wien · Verantwortlich für den Inhalt derSTM-Gallery-Seiten: Michael Schmid. Es gilt derHaftungsausschluss der TU Wien.