Morita Seizo
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-Oka 2-1, 565-0871, Japan.
J Electron Microsc (Tokyo). 2011;60 Suppl 1:S199-211. doi: 10.1093/jmicro/dfr047.
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has opened up the new nanoworlds of scanning probe microscopy. STM is the first-generation atomic tool that can image, evaluate and manipulate individual atoms and consequently can create nanostructures by true bottom-up methods based on atom-by-atom manipulation. Atomic force microscopy is a second-generation atomic tool that has followed the footsteps of STM, and which is now opening doors to a new atom world based on using nanoscale forces.
扫描隧道显微镜（STM）开启了扫描探针显微镜的新纳米世界。STM是第一代原子工具，能够对单个原子进行成像、评估和操纵，因此可以基于逐个原子操纵的真正自下而上的方法创建纳米结构。原子力显微镜是第二代原子工具，它追随STM的脚步，现在正基于使用纳米级力打开通往新原子世界的大门。
