The team used IBM's Nobel Prize-winning scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to create and monitor the magnets using holmium atoms. Then, they used an electrical current to write and read binary ...

Twenty years after spelling out IBM with atoms, the scanning tunnelling microscope is still going strong. Until then the STM had been used to image surfaces, and atoms and molecules on surfaces ...

However, the STM has remained the pre-eminent instrument for imaging and manipulating structures on the atomic scale. Now, researchers at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory and Utrecht University ...

(NYSE:IBM). The company’s stock price reached an ... STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE:STM) is a semiconductor company that manufactures communication equipment, computer accessories, and microchips ...