Quantum tunneling is also a key feature of the scanning tunneling microscope, the first machine to enable the imaging and manipulation of individual atoms.

量子隧穿还是扫描隧道电子显微镜的一大特色。这是第一种能够拍摄和操作原子的显微镜。

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Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) work by the voltage added to the microscope probe tip and the ends of the scanned object and then detect current changes.

扫描隧道显微镜(STM)的工作方式是把电压加到显微镜探头尖端与被扫描物体这两端，然后检测电流变化。

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To make the breakthrough, a team of physicists at IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom used a device called a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

为了取得突破，一组物理学家们在瑞士的苏黎世的IBM实验室和英国的利物浦大学使用了一个名为扫描隧道显微镜(STM)的装置。

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The transistor itself is composed of a single phosphorous-31 isotope, which has been precisely placed on a base of silicon using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope in an ultra-high vacuum chamber.

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Nanometer-size materials occur all around us in nature, but it was only 20 years ago, thanks to IBM's introduction of the scanning tunneling microscope, that scientists began to observe and manipulate materials at the atomic level.

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