New software simulating the full operation of a scanning tunneling microscope and its application to an FPGA-based instrument \

Abstract EN

-The scanning tunneling microscope is an essential tool in nanoscience and nanotechnology, because it enables imaging surfaces at the atomic level with sub- nanometer resolution.

We have written a LabVIEW-based virtual instrument to simulate the operation of an STM and made it available as a free-download at our company website.

This is an executable version to be run on a Windows operating system without requiring other software.

We have also constructed an STM that implements the same algorithms with a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide deterministic real-time control of multiple tasks.