The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery
An atomic-scale view of surfaces:
Some of the finest scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of metal surfaces, obtained by the Surface Physics Group at the Institut für Angewandte Physik, Faculty of Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria.
What you will find in this exhibition...
- The Scanning Tunneling Microscope
What it is and how it works
- Dislocations
Defects of the crystal lattice
- Surface Reconstructions
Rearrangement of atoms at the surface
- Crystallography of Iron Films
fcc, bcc and the transition
- Chemical Contrast in STM
Surface chemical order on alloys
- Adsorption and Adsorbates
When gas molecules get stuck on surfaces
- Segregation of Impurity Atoms
Images of their surface structure
- Growth of Lead on Copper
An atomic maze and other surprises
- Growth of Copper in Lead
Unexpected, but explicable
- Electron Waves and Orbitals
Interference of surface and bulk states
- Non-metals, too!
Oxides and grains of salt…
For an overview of some more recent research results of our group, see the Research Topics page of the Surface Physics Group.
If you want to see more beautiful STM images from another lab: You may have a look at the STM Gallery of IBM Almaden Research Center.
If you want to, feel free to download single images or the whole IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery for private or school/academic use, but please do not remove the margins with the source of the images. Commercial use with written permission only.
Whom you should blame for errors on this page:
Michael Schmid, IAP/TU Wien ([email address: lastname @ this server · enable javascript to see it]).
Funding by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) is gratefully acknowledged.
Impressum und Offenlegung gemäß Mediengesetz: Inhaber der Webseiten unter www.iap.tuwien.ac.at ist das Institut für Allgemeine Physik, TU Wien, 1040 Wien · Verantwortlich für den Inhalt der STM-Gallery-Seiten: Michael Schmid. Es gilt der Haftungsausschluss der TU Wien.