Scanning Probe Microscopy for Chemistry Majors

本系为本科化学专业学生提供扫描隧道显微镜（STM）。学生们正在获得一种尖端设备的实际操作经验，这种设备能够在原子水平上对表面进行成像，而且价格低廉，设计方便。高级水平的化学学生将体验到原子表面的实际实验室插图，强化聚合物和金属键、量子力学隧道、单位细胞和活性位点的概念。这样的经验使学生更好地为需要现代表面科学知识的职业做好准备，这一领域在过去十年中受到了爆炸式的关注。STM还使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.