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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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Aluru said that materials scientists will use the supercomputer to analyze data from the university's Local Electrode Atom Probe microscope, an instrument that can gather data and produce images at the atomic scale of billionths of a meter.
Other differences include a chapter on scanning probe microscopy; an expanded treatment of electron microscopy, now discussed in individual chapters on transmission techniques and scanning methods; and an expanded chapter on quantitative analysis that accommodates recent advances in three- dimensional reconstruction, including orientation imaging microscopy and atom probe tomography.
Paoli, PA 8/13/07; Paris, France 8/13/07--AMETEK has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of secondary ion mass and low-energy X-ray emission spectrometers, as well as tomographic atom probes and electron probe microanalysis instrumentation, for 82 million [euro] ($112 million) from the Carlyle Group.
 
 
 
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