Electronic effects in scanning tunneling microscopy of graphite: A Green’s-function calculation based on the tight-binding model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 11777-11785

  McKinnon, B ^a   Choy, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0000681540     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.11777     Document Type: Article

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