Gas field ion source current stability for trimer and single atom terminated W(111) tips

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Urban, Radovan ^a,b   Pitters, Jason L ^b   Wolkow, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SITES; CURRENT OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION PROCESS; GAS FIELDS; ION CURRENTS; NEON ION; SCANNING ION MICROSCOPY; SINGLE ATOMS; SINGLE-ATOM TIPS; SOURCE CURRENTS;

GAS INDUSTRY; HELIUM; ION BEAMS; ION SOURCES; NEON; OLIGOMERS; TUNGSTEN;

ATOMS;

EID: 84863301805     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4726112     Document Type: Article

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