Electronic effects in the formation of apparently noisy scanning tunneling microscopy images of Sr on Si(111)-7×7

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Zhachuk, R ^a,b   Olshanetsky, B ^a   Coutinho, J ^c   Pereira, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

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EID: 77955407584     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.165424     Document Type: Article

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