Séamus Davis and his fantastic machine

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Channel: Cornell University · 2012 · Education

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Using an incredibly sensitive scanning tunneling microscope that resolves features smaller than an atom, physicist J. C. Séamus Davis studies the electronic structure of exotic materials like superconductors to find out how they work and how they can be improved.

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