Scanning Probe Microscopy for Chemistry Majors

该部门正在提供本科化学专业与扫描隧道显微镜（STM）。 学生们正在获得一种尖端设备的实践经验，这种设备能够在原子水平上描绘表面，但为了方便而设计的廉价包装。 高年级的化学学生正在体验原子表面的有形实验室插图，加强聚合物和金属键合，量子力学隧道，单位细胞和活性位点的想法。 这样的经验为学生更好地为需要现代表面科学知识的职业做好准备，这是一个在过去十年中受到兴趣爆炸的领域。 STM还让学生接触到现代计算机接口仪器和图像处理。

The department is providing undergraduate chemistry majors with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). Students are gaining hands-on experience with a cutting-edge device capable of picturing surfaces at the atomic level, yet in an inexpensive package designed for convenience. Senior level chemistry students are experiencing tangible laboratory illustrations of atomic surfaces, enforcing ideas of polymeric and metallic bonding, quantum mechanical tunneling, unit cells and active sites. Such experience prepares students better for careers requiring knowledge of modern surface science, an area that has received an explosion of interest over the last ten years. The STM also exposes students to modern computer-interfaced instrumentation and image processing.