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Quantum tunneling is the quantum-mechanical effect of transitioning through a classically-forbidden energy state.

One of the major applications is in electron-tunneling microscopes (see scanning tunneling microscope) used to see objects that are too small to see using conventional microscopes. Electron tunneling microscopes overcome the limiting effects of conventional microscopes ( optical aberrations, wavelength limitations) by scanning the surface of an object with tunneling electrons.

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