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atom probe

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atom probe [′ad·əm ‚prōb]
(engineering)
An instrument for identifying a single atom or molecule on a metal surface; it consists of a field ion microscope with a probe hole in its screen opening into a mass spectrometer; atoms that are removed from the specimen by pulsed field evaporation fly through the probe hole and are detected in the mass spectrometer.


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This type of image could not be obtained before the advent of 3-D atom probes.
 
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