Design of a compact scanning tunnelling microscope with a feedback to coarse approach controller for low scan ranges

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Jayadevaiah, M ^a   Lakshminarayanan, V ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Coarse approach feedback mode; High voltage amplifiers; Scanning tunnelling microscope

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FEEDBACK; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; RELIABILITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION;

INERTIAL SLIDER MECHANISM; LOW SCAN RANGES; VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 2542493956     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/5/N02     Document Type: Article

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