
Written by three leading experts in the field, this textbook describes and explains all aspects of scanning probe microscopy, i.e. scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning force microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, and related imaging techniques with atomic-scale resolution...

Two decades after its invention, scanning probe microscopy has become a widely used method in laboratories as diverse as industrial magnetic stor- age development or structural biology. Consequently, the community of users ranges from biologists and medical researchers to physicists...