Insulated gold scanning tunneling microscopy probes for recognition tunneling in an aqueous environment

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tuchband, Michael ^a   He, Jin ^a,b   Huang, Shuo ^a,c   Lindsay, Stuart ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE; AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; ELECTROACTIVE SOLUTIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; PROBE SURFACE; SATURATION CURRENT; THIOL GROUPS; TUNNELING MEASUREMENT;

GOLD; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

PROBES;

ELECTROLYTE; GOLD; POLYETHYLENE; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTES; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; POLYETHYLENE; SOLVENTS; WATER;

EID: 84859179586     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3673640     Document Type: Review

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