Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling

Known as: Microscopies, Scanning Tunneling, Tunnelling Microscopies, Scanning, Tunnelling Microscopy, Scanning 
A type of scanning probe microscopy in which a very sharp conducting needle is swept just a few angstroms above the surface of a sample. The tiny… (More)
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Microscopy, Atomic ForceSICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy)Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (device)standards characteristics

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride.
Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Tailoring the atomic structure of graphene nanoribbons by scanning tunnelling microscope lithography.
The practical realization of nanoscale electronics faces two major challenges: the precise engineering of the building blocks and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Identification of active edge sites for electrochemical H2 evolution from MoS2 nanocatalysts.
The identification of the active sites in heterogeneous catalysis requires a combination of surface sensitive methods and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Thermal radiation scanning tunnelling microscopy
In standard near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), a subwavelength probe acts as an optical ‘stethoscope’ to map the near… (More)
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Review
2005
Review
2005
Optical sectioning microscopy
Confocal scanning microscopy, a form of optical sectioning microscopy, has radically transformed optical imaging in biology… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers.
Magnetically engineered magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) show promise as non-volatile storage cells in high-performance solid… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Vibration compensation for high speed scanning tunneling microscopy
Low scanning speed is a fundamental limitation of scanning tunneling microscopes ~STMs!, making real time imaging of surface… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Algorithms for Scanned Probe Microscope Image Simulation, Surface Reconstruction, and Tip Estimation
To the extent that tips are not perfectly sharp, images produced by scanned probe microscopies (SPM) such as atomic force… (More)
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Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Atomic and molecular manipulation with the scanning tunneling microscope.
The prospect of manipulating matter on the atomic scale has fascinated scientists for decades. This fascination may be motivated… (More)
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Theory of the scanning tunneling microscope.
We present a theory for tunneling between a real surface and a model probe tip, applicable to the recently developed "scanning… (More)
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