Direct Measurement of the Local Density of States of a Disordered One-Dimensional Conductor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Meyer, Chr ^a   Klijn, J ^a   Morgenstern, M ^a   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONDUCTORS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 0141571192     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.076803     Document Type: Article

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