The tip-sample water bridge and light emission from scanning tunnelling microscopy

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 33, 2009, Pages

  Boyle, Michael G ^a   Mitra, J ^a   Dawson, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; DIP-PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK PARAMETERS; INSTRUMENT CONTROL; LIGHT EMISSION SPECTRA; LIGHT INTENSITY; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANO-CAVITIES; NANOMETRES; NONPOLAR LIQUIDS; POLARITY DEPENDENCE; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SCANNING PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL CHANGE; WATER BRIDGES; WATER FILLING; WATER MENISCUS; WATER MOLECULE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; LIGHT EMISSION; MOISTURE; PROBES; SCANNING; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; WIND TUNNELS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HUMIDITY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 70249117824     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/33/335202     Document Type: Article

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