THE ELECTRIC SQUEEZE

Carbon

Pierre Curie

Scanning tunneling microscope

Gerd Binnig (left) and Heinrich Rohrer,inventors

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Individual atoms

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Platinum

Cesium and iodine on copper

Individual atoms

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Copper

Xenon on nickel

Manipulating atoms

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Iron on copper Logic sorter

Manipulating atoms

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Iron on copper

This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ESI-0532536.

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