Research
"I was born not knowing and have only a little time to change that here and there" - Richard Feynman

Schematic of a typical STM setup


Gerd Binning and Heirich Rohrer with their STM.

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My broad research interests are as follows:

 Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is a powerful technique for viewing surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (at IBM Zürich), the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.