“…Previous reports from this laboratory described imaging of surfaces by employing the feedback 1 Current address: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. mode, where the steady-state tip current, iT, controlled by an electrochemical reaction at the tip electrode, is a function of the solution composition, tip-substrate distance, d, and the nature of the substrate itself. The measurement of ¿r can thus provide information about the topography of the sample surface as well as its electrical and chemical properties; electrodes (e.g., minigrids and interdigitated electrode arrays) (6)(7)(8), polymer and oxide films on electrode (7,9), and biological materials (10) have been imaged. Thus SECM allows, at least in favorable circumstances, analysis of surface features with high spatial resolution.…”