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Light Emission from the Tunnel Junction of the STM. Possible Role of Tcherenkov Effect

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Investigations of the light emission from the tunnel junctions between different noble metals in air and in liquid ambient are reviewed. A new mechanism of light emission by the tunneling electrons similar to the Tcherenkov effect is suggested. Experiments with copper phthalocyanine molecules in the Au-Au tunnel junction are discussed.

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  1. Institute of spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142092, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia

    I. I. Smolyaninov

  2. CEMES-LOE/CNRS, B.P.4347, 31055, Toulouse Cedex, France

    I. I. Smolyaninov

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  1. IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

    Dieter W. Pohl

  2. Laboratoire d’Optique P.M. Duffieux, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Daniel Courjon

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Smolyaninov, I.I. (1993). Light Emission from the Tunnel Junction of the STM. Possible Role of Tcherenkov Effect. In: Pohl, D.W., Courjon, D. (eds) Near Field Optics. NATO ASI Series, vol 242. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1978-8_40

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