General Information

Serial #

PROTOTYPE

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

PLYWOOD BASE/ BRASS BODY WITH METAL PARTS/ SYNTHETIC WIRE COVERING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC DUCT TAPE/ PAPER LABELS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

19.1 cm

Width

19.1 cm

Height

13.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Physics

Category

Light & electromagnetic radiation

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

University

Country

Canada

State/Province

Nova Scotia

City

Halifax

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Nova Scotia

Period

1986+

Canada

UNIQUE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE DESIGNED & MADE IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITY A FEW YEARS AFTER FIRST INVENTION OF STM IN 1981. TEAM AT DALHOUSIE MADE TWO DIFFERENT STMS IN 1986 & USED THEM FOR NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS, PARTICULARLY EXPERIMENTS RELATING TO MICROBIOLOGY.

Function

DEVICE FOR STUDYING & IMAGING INDIVIDUAL ATOMS ON SURFACES OF MATERIALS, BASED ON TUNNELING OF ELECTRONS BETWEEN TIP OF PROBE & SURFACE OF SAMPLE.

Technical

STM, WHICH ENABLED SCIENTISTS TO SEE ATOMS, WAS INVENTED IN EARLY 1980'S BY BINNIG & ROHRER (OF IBM ZURICH), WHO WON 1986 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. THIS ONE IS 1STOF TWO DIFFERENT & UNIQUE DEVICES DEVELOPED IN 1985-1986 IN PHYSICS DEPT. OF DALHOUSIE UNIV. THIS VERSION USED PIEZO RODS WITH MICROMETER COARSE APPROACH, WITH THERMAL COMPENSATION.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

PAPER LABELS READ "Coarse/ Approach/ Piezo", "X/ Piezo", "Z piezo", "Y", "Sample"

Missing

UNKNOWN - APPEARS COMPLETE From CA of 11/13/2001 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete

Finish

BASE PAINTED LIGHT GREEN/ BRASS COLOURED & METALLIC PARTS/ BLACK PAINTED BRACKET/ RED & BLACK WIRE COVERING & SYNTHETIC PARTS/ GREY TAPE/ WHITE PAPER

Decoration

N/A