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Q: When using a scanning probe microscope do you see atoms directly or only indirectly?
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How do you see atoms?

With a Scanning tunneling microscope STM


When you use a scanning probe microscope do you see atoms dirctly or only indirctly?

A scanning probe microscope will not resolve an atom


What type of microscope is used to show atoms?

The scanning tunneling microscope has a small probe which actually more like "feels" the size of the atoms and reads this out on a computer screen. The probe can pick up individual atoms. IBM used a STM years ago to spell I B M with uranium atoms and took a picture of it. But one does not actually directly "see" the atoms.


What technique can be used to visualize individual atoms?

In 1981 the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) was invented. The STM has ultrahigh resolution and can image single atoms.


What allows scientist to see atoms?

scanning tunneling microscope


can a scientist see atoms?

They can't see atoms with a naked eye, but they can use an electron microscope or a STM (scanning tunneling microscope).


What could produce an image of individual atoms?

scanning electron microscope


What type of microscope allows you to observe single atoms?

scanning probe


What kind of microscope allows scientists to view indivisual atoms?

"View" may not be exactly the right word. A Scanning Tunneling Microscope can be used to gather data that a computer can turn into an image, but they're not really "seeing" the individual atoms directly.


What microscope helps scientists view individual atoms?

B. Scanning Tunneling


You can see atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope?

The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.


What do you view atoms with?

You can view an atom with a scanning- tunneling microscope and a atomic force microscopes.