The instrument that we will use is the Nanosurf EasyScan STM.
There is a nice virtual-reality presentation of how this device works at the University of Virginia. For reading about quantum tunneling in general and about scanning tunneling microscopy in paricular, there are plenty of resources on the web. A one-page description in Swedish is here.
I set up the instrument, connected the computer, upgraded to the current software and firmware, and checked if the electronics is working. But this was with an ancient tip, so no interesting results. First thing you will have to do in the lab is to cut a new tip for getting atomic resolution.