title: Atom world based on nano-forces: 25 years of atomic force microscopy.
abstract: Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has opened up the new nanoworlds of scanning probe microscopy. STM is the first-generation atomic tool that can image, evaluate and manipulate individual atoms and consequently can create nanostructures by true bottom-up methods based on atom-by-atom manipulation. Atomic force microscopy is a second-generation atomic tool that has followed the footsteps of STM, and which is now opening doors to a new atom world based on using nanoscale forces.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-Oka 2-1, 565-0871, Japan. smorita@eei.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Seizo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morita