Bardeen's tunnelling theory as applied to scanning tunnelling microscopy: A technical guide to the traditional interpretation

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Gottlieb, Alex D ^a   Wesoloski, Lisa ^b  

^a Vienna University   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

OPPENHEIMER'S PERTURBATION THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; TERSOFF-HAMANN APPROXIMATION;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 33645301343     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/8/R01     Document Type: Article

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