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STM Imaging of Single-Atom Adsorbates on Metals

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy III

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Consider the imaging of a single atom adsorbed on a metal surface in the STM. Ideally, the STM tip will also be one atom adsorbed on a group of other metal atoms. For theoretical purposes, we will model this system using two flat metallic electrodes, each of which has a single atom adsorbed on its surface, with one representing the tip and the other the sample. If we calculate the current that flows between these electrodes when a bias voltage is applied between them, then we can study theoretically many of the basic physical aspects of STM imaging.

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    Roland Wiesendanger

  2. Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland

    Hans-Joachim Güntherodt

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Lang, N.D. (1996). STM Imaging of Single-Atom Adsorbates on Metals. In: Wiesendanger, R., Güntherodt, HJ. (eds) Scanning Tunneling Microscopy III. Springer Series in Surface Sciences , vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80118-1_2

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