Scanning-tunneling-microscopy images: a fully ab initio approach

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1999, Pages R5320-R5323

  Pantelides, S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001632301     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.R5320     Document Type: Article

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