Design of an extremely stable low-temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Koslowski, B ^a   Dietrich, Ch ^a   Tschetschetkin, A ^a   Ziemann, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GOLD; LOW TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING; NIOBIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

LOW-TEMPERATURE ULTRAHIGH VACUUM SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE; NOISE LEVEL;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33745685889     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2213171     Document Type: Article

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