Scanning tunneling microscopy contrast mechanisms for TiO 2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Woolcot, T ^a,b   Teobaldi, G ^c   Pang, C L ^a,b   Beglitis, N S ^a,b   Fisher, A J ^a,b   Hofer, W A ^c   Thornton, G ^a,b  

^a LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MECHANISM; DECAY LENGTH; FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS; RUTILE TIO; SURFACE GEOMETRIES; TIO; TITANIA SURFACES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; OXIDE MINERALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84867505783     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.156105     Document Type: Article

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