Compact coarse approach mechanism for scanning tunneling microscope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 3552-3555

  Gupta, Anjan K ^a   Ng, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 0035465799     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1394181     Document Type: Article

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