electrical scanning — 1. Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by electrical means without moving the antenna. 2. Also called electronic scanning. Television. the technique used in scanning a surface to… … Useful english dictionary
Scanning voltage microscopy — (SVM) sometimes also called nanopotentiometry is a scientific experimental technique based on atomic force microscopy. A conductive probe, usually only a few nanometers wide at the tip, is placed in full contact with an operational electronic or… … Wikipedia
Scanning gate microscopy — (SGM) is a scanning probe microscopy technique with an electrically conductive tip used as a movable gate that couples capacitively to the sample and probes electrical transport on the nanometer scale. Typical samples are mesoscopic devices,… … Wikipedia
Scanning capacitance microscopy — (SCM) is a variety of scanning probe microscopy in which a narrow probe electrode is held just above the surface of a sample and scanned across the sample. SCM characterizes the surface of the sample using information obtained from the change in… … Wikipedia
Scanning electron microscope — These pollen grains taken on an SEM show the characteristic depth of field of SEM micrographs … Wikipedia
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Scanning Helium Ion Microscope — A Scanning Helium Ion Microscope (SHIM) is a new imaging technology based on a scanning helium ion beam. [ [http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2120 ntid=121 pg=1 Nanotechwire press release announcing new microscope, retrieved December 13, 2006] … Wikipedia
mechanical scanning — 1. Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by rotating it. 2. Television. a technique, formerly used in televising, for scanning by means of a scanning disk. Cf. electrical scanning. * * * … Universalium
mechanical scanning — 1. Electronics. a technique for varying the sector covered by a transmitting or receiving antenna by rotating it. 2. Television. a technique, formerly used in televising, for scanning by means of a scanning disk. Cf. electrical scanning … Useful english dictionary
electronic scanning. — See electrical scanning (def. 2). * * * … Universalium