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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with built-in interactive features where students can observe how electrons behave. Using a virtual scanning tunneling microscope (STM), they experiment with moving the electrons inside an atom around. The STM has two...
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Activity
Arizona State University

Arizona State University/spm Home Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate a SPM image at home with this activity of the week. Links back to more info about SPM's.
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Website
Other

Scanning Probe Microscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a fairly in depth description of Scanning Probe Microscopes as well as links and images. This site is designed for those with a strong understanding of this field.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Heinrich Rohrer

For Students 9th - 10th
Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a non-optical instrument that allows the observation of individual atoms in three dimensions, with Gerd Binnig. The achievement garnered the pair half...
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Website
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Nano Manipulator

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of North Carolina takes you through the research being done at Univ. of North Carolina with SPM. Includes an introduction to scanning probe microscope.