Goals:

Reaching the physical resolution limit of STM and AFM

• sensors with optimized physical properties
• low temperatures
• tips with defined chemical composition and structure

Improve understanding of tip-sample interaction

Simplifying STM and AFM operation for

• applications in difficult environment (UHV, low temperatures)
• tool to study insulators

1. image, 2. identify, 3. manipulate any atomic species on any surface (crystal & amorphous) in all environments (vacuum, gas, liquid)