Electrochemical preparation of cobalt tips for scanning tunneling microscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4254-4256

  Albonetti, Cristiano ^a   Bergenti, Ilaria ^a   Cavallini, Massimiliano ^a   Dediu, Valentin ^a   Massi, Massimiliano ^a   Moulin, Jean François ^a   Biscarini, Fabio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COBALT TIPS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036947452     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1518127     Document Type: Article

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