Editing Scanning tunneling microscope (section)

== Gallery of STM images ==
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File:Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) 250 nm by 250 nm image of one-atom-thick silver islands grown on palladium (111) surface.png|One-atom-thick silver islands grown on terraces of the (111) surface of palladium. Image size is 250&nbsp;nm by 250&nbsp;nm.
File:Atomic resolution Au100.JPG|The characteristic reconstruction fringes on the (100) surface of gold are 1.44&nbsp;[[nanometre|nm]] wide<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Bengió S, Navarro V, González-Barrio MA, Cortés R, Vobornik I, Michel EG, Mascaraque A |date=2012-07-18|title=Electronic structure of reconstructed Au(100): Two-dimensional and one-dimensional surface states |journal=Physical Review B|volume=86|issue=4|pages=045426|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.86.045426|bibcode=2012PhRvB..86d5426B|hdl=10261/93324 }}</ref> and consist of six atomic rows that sit on top of five rows of the crystal bulk. Image size is approximately 10&nbsp;nm by 10&nbsp;nm.
File:Chiraltube.png|A 7&nbsp;nm long part of a single-walled [[carbon nanotube]].
File:Silicium-atomes.png|Atoms on the surface of a crystal of [[silicon carbide]] (SiC) are arranged in a hexagonal lattice and are 0.3&nbsp;nm apart.
File:Cens nanomanipulation3d Trixler.jpg|STM nanomanipulation of PTCDA molecules on [[graphite]] to inscribe the logo of the [[Center for NanoScience]] (CeNS), Munich.   
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