Picture of the Month: A showroom for single atoms

Anyone currently entering laboratory 005 at the LENA research center is initially a little taken aback. A large stainless steel device hangs from the ceiling. The working group “Nanoscopic Systems” is still setting up its self-constructed so-called photon scanning tunneling microscope (P-STM). Nevertheless, we were allowed to look into the heart of the microscope for the “Picture of the Month”.