Virtual scanning tunneling microscopy: A local spectroscopic probe of two-dimensional electron systems

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Sciambi, A ^a,b   Pelliccione, M ^a,b   Bank, S R ^b,c   Gossard, A C ^b   Goldhaber Gordon, D ^b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROSTRUCTURES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; METAL TIP; PROBE TECHNIQUE; SPECTROSCOPIC PROBES; TUNNELING MEASUREMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM (2DES);

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77957665403     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3492440     Document Type: Article

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