A 300 mK ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope for spin-resolved spectroscopy at high energy resolution

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4871-4879

  Wiebe, J ^a   Wachowiak, A ^a,c   Meier, F ^a   Haude, D ^a   Foster, T ^b   Morgenstern, M ^a,d   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLASMA TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY RESOLUTION; SCANNING TUUNELING SPECTROSCOPY (STS); SUPERCONDUCTING TIPS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

COOLING; CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; EVAPORATION; HALL EFFECT; HELIUM; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REFRIGERATORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THIN FILMS; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 10844287323     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1794431     Document Type: Article

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