Tip and surface determination from experiments and simulations of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Paz, Óscar ^a   Brihuega, Iván ^a   Gómez Rodríguez, José M ^a   Soler, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARDEEN MATRIX ELEMENTS; FERMI-DIRAC FUNCTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE (RT); TERSOFF AND HAMANN (TH);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 18144363209     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.056103     Document Type: Article

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