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The 16 pages that link to Scanning tunneling microscope, each with the reason it gives.

• WavefunctionRelated: Its tunneling current depends on the electronic wavefunctions near a surface.

• NanotechnologyRelated: It enabled atomic-scale surface imaging and manipulation, expanding practical access to nanoscale structures.

• AtomRelated: It can image and manipulate individual atoms on suitable surfaces.

• Atomic theoryRelated: It can image and manipulate individual atoms on suitable surfaces.

• Wave functionRelated: Its measured current depends on electronic wave functions near the surface.

• Scanning electron microscopeCompared with: It scans with a physical probe rather than an electron beam in a microscope column.

• IBM ResearchRelated: IBM researchers Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented it at IBM Zurich.

• Molecular electronicsRelated: Its tip can form a contact to a molecule and probe its conductance.

• Gerd BinnigBroader topic: This is the instrument Binnig co-invented with Rohrer.

• Heinrich RohrerBroader topic: This is the instrument Rohrer and Binnig developed, and the work cited by the Nobel committee.

• Leo EsakiRelated: Its operation uses tunneling as a measurable signal, a broader technological legacy of Esaki’s discovery.

• Ivar GiaeverRelated: It extends tunneling-current measurements into spatially resolved imaging of material surfaces.

• Nanoelectromechanical systemsRelated: Its development made nanoscale surfaces measurable and manipulable, supporting the wider nanotechnology toolkit.

• NanoscienceRelated: Its development in the early 1980s enabled direct imaging of individual surface atoms.

• Quantum tunnellingBroader topic: Its image signal comes directly from the distance-sensitive tunnelling current.

• Timeline of microscope technologyBroader topic: Its 1981 invention enabled atomic-scale surface imaging by measuring current rather than light.