Hot electron cascades in the scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Schneider, Natalia L ^a   Johansson, Peter ^b,c   Berndt, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84872957892     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.045409     Document Type: Article

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