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The focus of this chapter is the electron microscope, an instrument critical to our understanding of a whole range of materials. The chapter also provides a brief history of scanning tunneling microscopy, a technique with the ability to provide atomic resolution images of the surfaces of materials.
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Norton, M.G. (2023). Seeing Is Believing. In: A Modern History of Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23990-8_3
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