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Magnetic tips probe the nanoworld

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 267–268 (2007)Cite this article

A new approach to magnetic resonance force microscopy has demonstrated a resolution of 90 nm, and with further improvements it may be possible to determine the chemical compositions of single molecules.

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Figure 1: Different approaches to magnetic resonance.

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  1. Ernst Meyer and Simon Rast are at the Institute of Physics, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. ernst.meyer@unibas.ch; simon.rast@unibas.ch,

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