A versatile variable-temperature scanning tunneling microscope for molecular growth

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Kuck, Stefan ^a   Wienhausen, Jan ^a   Hoffmann, Germar ^a   Wiesendanger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EDDY CURRENTS; INERT GASES; LIQUEFIED GASES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; RADIOACTIVITY; SCANNING; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

BASE TEMPERATURES; HEAT LOADS; MOLECULAR MATERIALS; VARIABLE TEMPERATURES;

VACUUM;

EID: 50849130546     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2972971     Document Type: Article

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