Microwave plasma chemical vapor deposited diamond tips for scanning tunneling microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2848-2850

  Albin, Sacharia ^a   Zheng, Jianli ^a   Cooper, John B ^a,b   Fu, Weihai ^a   Lavarias, Arnel C ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GRAPHITE; SURFACES;

DIAMOND TIPS; NEGATIVE ELECTRON AFFINITY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; TUNGSTEN WIRES;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031268238     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120152     Document Type: Article

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