Role of surface states in scanning tunneling spectroscopy of (111) metal surfaces with Kondo adsorbates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Merino, J ^a   Gunnarsson, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COBALT; DATA REDUCTION; FERMI LEVEL; GOLD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOEMISSION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

KONDO IMPURITIES; METAL SURFACES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

COPPER;

EID: 17144419580     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.156601     Document Type: Article

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