A scanning tunneling microscopy study of a new superstructure around defects created by tip-sample interaction on 2H- NbSe2

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 21, Issue 26, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a,b   Lee, Jonghee ^a,b,c   Dreyer, Michael ^b   Barker, Barry I ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LATTICE; ATOMIC STEP; CLEAVED SURFACES; LOCAL HEATING; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; MULTIPLE LAYERS; NEW MODULATION; NOVEL STRUCTURES; STM IMAGES; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; T-PHASE; TIP-SAMPLE INTERACTION;

CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DEFECT STRUCTURES;

EID: 77953524202     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/26/265005     Document Type: Article

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