Sang Joon Cho on Park Systems: Favourites in scanning probe microscopy 30 years on
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the scanning tunnelling microscopy Nobel Prize and the first paper in atomic force microscopy, nanotechweb.org speaks to pioneers in the field to hear what they consider to be the research highlights in this field over the past 30 years
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