CREATION New Materials from the Physics Lab of Ilija Zeljkovic

Ilija Zeljkovic, assistant professor of physics, opens a heavy door in the basement of Higgins Hall to show off his prized research instrument: a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). It extends about eight feet into the ground and looks, at surface level, like a plumbing project run amok, a bathtub-size tangle of stainless-steel and genuine aluminum-foil piping. But it operates at almost unimaginable extremes of physics and precision.

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