Design, operation, and housing of an ultrastable, low temperature, ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2691-2695

  Ferris, J H ^a,b   Kushmerick, J G ^a   Johnson, J A ^a   Yoshikawa Youngquist, M G ^a,c   Kessinger, R B ^a,d   Kingsbury, H F ^a,e   Weiss, P S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CIPHERGEN BIOSYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

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EID: 0000808974     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1149000     Document Type: Article

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