An ultrahigh vacuum high speed scanning tunneling microscope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2790-2796

  Curtis, Robert ^a   Mitsui, Toshiyuki ^a   Ganz, Eric ^a  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER CONTROL; DATA ACQUISITION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GOLD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NICKEL; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SILICON; SURFACES; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ATOMIC RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; TIP SCAN SPEED; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031191538     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1148196     Document Type: Article

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