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A comparison between the usual image produced by a scanning tunnelling microscope with a blank tip (left) and that of a microscope with a xenon atom as a sensor (right). Only the new method shows the atomic structure of a copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) molecule beside a layer of perylenetetracarboxylic acid dianhydride (PTCDA).