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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1986
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2001.0005.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Dalhousie University
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ANODIZED ALUMINUM BASEPLATE & FEET, ALUMINUM PARTS; SYNTHETIC PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- 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
-
Unknown - Technical
-
STM, WHICH ENABLED SCIENTISTS TO SEE ATOMS, WAS INVENTED IN EARLY 1980'S BY BINNIG & ROHRER (OF IBM ZURICH), WHO WERE AWARDED 1986 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. THIS ONE IS 2ND OF TWO DIFFERENT & UNIQUE DEVICES DEVELOPED IN 1985-1986 IN PHYSICS DEPT. OF DALHOUSIE UNIV. THIS VERSION USED THREE IDENTICAL BIMORPH PIEZOELECTRIC DISKS AS X,Y,Z TRANSLATOR DRIVE ELEMENTS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- NONE
- Missing
- From CA of 11/13/2001 by Matthew Bruce: No - appears complete
- Finish
- ANODIZED ALUMINUM, WHITE SYNTHETIC, METALLIC PARTS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Dalhousie University, Base plate, 1986, Artifact no. 2001.0005, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2001.0005.002/
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