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A type of scanning probe microscopy in which a very sharp conducting needle is swept just a few angstroms above the surface of a sample. The tiny tunneling current that flows between the sample and the needle tip is measured, and from this are produced three-dimensional topographs. Due to the poor electron conductivity of most biological samples, thin metal coatings are deposited on the sample.
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- Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling
- Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
- Microscopies, Scanning Tunneling
- Microscopies, Scanning Tunnelling
- Microscopy, Scanning Tunnelling
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopies
- Scanning Tunnelling Microscopies
- Tunneling Microscopies, Scanning
- Tunneling Microscopy, Scanning
- Tunnelling Microscopies, Scanning
- Tunnelling Microscopy, Scanning
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends, veterinary.
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- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning (1987-1990)
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- National Library of Medicine. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016252. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016252
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71251194