High vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscope based on a scanning tunneling microscope

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Fang, Yurui ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenglong ^a,c,d   Sun, Mengtao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MICROSCOPES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLAYERS;

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HIGHLY ORDERED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITES; LOCALIZED TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; STOKES AND ANTI-STOKES; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84960869942     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: 10897623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4943291     Document Type: Article

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