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field-ion microscope

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A microscope that produces images of atoms in resolution at the atomic scale on a sharp, electrically charged, super-cooled metal tip by means of field ionization. Ions repelled from the tip form a pattern on a detector, providing an image of the sample on the tip.

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