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The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) was first developed to examine the surface of solids. The properties of the surface of a solid sample are distinctly different from those within the solid, because the atoms on the surface are often arranged much differently from those in the interior of a sample. In the interior of a solid, atoms are surrounded by other atoms, whereas those on the surface interact only with those directly below them or adjacent to them, while being free to react with atoms above the surface of the solid (gases, etc.).
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Dykstra, M.J. (1992). Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Its Derivatives. In: Biological Electron Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0010-6_18
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