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wwalker3
on Aug 27, 2009
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IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds
They said it was a 20-hour scan, at 5K, with the AFM tip 0.5 nanometers from the pentacene molecule. The molecule itself is 1.4 nm long, so they were only about 30% of its length away from it in the vertical direction.
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