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photon tunneling microscope

An instrument in which visible light beyond the critical angle from a metallurgical microscope is focused on a reference surface. A certain fraction of the incident light tunnels through air to the sample. Light reflected back into the microscope is modulated according to the dips and peaks in the sample.
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