In addition to having become recognised and valuable techniques, one undeniable contribution of local probe microscopies is that they have re-encouraged a certain experimental audacity. Firstly, to tackle, in an innovative way, the scientific problems of surface physics, and then rapidly, those of the nanoworld. Today, the inventiveness and frugality that have made possible the range of variations of these nanoscopes allow original approaches that resonate with the scientific questions addressed by the LPS department.
