Recent content by jhguth

Those really are not "ripples" that you are looking at. Those are rows of copper atoms at a lower resolution so you don't see that each row consists of a line of closely packed spherical atoms as they are detected and imaged by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. An STM micrograph is actually a 3D...

Hello there, In my biophysics research days at UC Berkeley, I was trained to use a transmission electron microscope and to prepare biological specimens for that technique. The ultramicrotome is the thinnest sectioning instrument that I have used, producing ultrathin sections of...