An externally cooled beetle type scanning tunneling microscope for imaging in cryogenic liquids

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 252, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 5485-5488

  Arnalds, Unnar B ^a   Bjarnason, Elias H ^a   Jonsson, Kristjan ^b   Olafsson, Sveinn ^b  

^a Matvice   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Cryogenic cooling; STM construction

Indexed keywords

ARGON; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METHANE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILANES; VACUUM;

ATOMIC RESOLUTION; CRYOGENIC COOLING; STM CONSTRUCTION; VACUUM CHAMBER;

CRYOGENICS;

EID: 33744542849     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2005.12.089     Document Type: Article

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