Müller Invents the Field Emission Microscope
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Scientists, Inventors, Physics, Physicists, Engineering, Engineers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Berlin
- Date: 1936
Article abstract: Müller invented the field emission microscope, the first instrument to depict the crystal structure of metals and the forerunner of his more powerful field ion microscope.
Summary of Event
Erwin Wilhelm Müller began to study the physical process which would constitute the basis of the field emission microscope while he was a research physicist in Berlin from 1935 to 1937. Field emission is the emission of electrons, the negatively charged subatomic constituents of all matter, from a metal electrode under the influence of a strong...
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