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Modern high-resolution microscopes, such as the scanning tunneling microscope, are commonly used to study specimens that have dense and aperiodic spatial structure. Extracting meaningful information from images obtained from such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Sky C. Cheung , John Y. Shin , Yenson Lau , Zhengyu Chen , Ju Sun , Yuqian Zhang , John N. Wright , Abhay N. Pasupathy

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) has become established as a powerful and a versatile tool for investigating local mechanical properties. In addition, it has been made possible to take advantage of the AFM tip-sample interaction, to perturb,…

We propose a mechanism to use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) for direct measurements of the two-electron singlet-triplet exchange splitting $J$ in diatomic molecular systems, unsing the coupling between the molecule and the substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fransson , A. V. Balatsky

The physical properties of ultrathin NaCl overlayers on the stepped Cu(311) surface have been characterized using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy, and density functional calculations. Simulations of STM images and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 F. E. Olsson , M. Persson , J. Repp , G. Meyer

Analyzing atomically resolved images is a time-consuming process requiring solid experience and substantial human intervention. In addition, the acquired images contain a large amount of information such as crystal structure, presence and…

Microscopy such as Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) are essential tools in material imaging at micro- and nanoscale resolutions to extract physical knowledge and…

The plasmonic tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) is functionalized with a single fluorescent molecule and is scanned on a plasmonic substrate. The tunneling current flowing through the tip-molecule-substrate junction generates a…

We present the design and experimental results of a near-field scanning microwave microscope (NSMM) working at a frequency of 1GHz. Our microscope is unique in that the sensing probe is separated from the excitation electrode to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Lai , M. B. Ji , N. Leindecker , M. A. Kelly , Z. X. Shen

Sub-micrometer scale light patterns play a pivotal role in various fields, including biology, biophysics, and AMO physics. High-resolution, in situ observation of light profiles is essential for their design and application. However,…

We describe the construction and performance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of taking maps of the tunneling density of states with sub-atomic spatial resolution at dilution refrigerator temperatures and high (14 T)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-04 Shashank Misra , Brian B. Zhou , Ilya K. Drozdov , Jungpil Seo , Andras Gyenis , Simon C. J. Kingsley , Howard Jones , Ali Yazdani

We present a method capable of calculating elastic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) currents from localized atomic orbital density functional theory (DFT). To overcome the poor accuracy of the localized orbital description of the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Alexander Gustafsson , Magnus Paulsson

Conventional scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is limited to a bandwidth of circa 1kHz around DC. Here, we develop, build and test a novel amplifier circuit capable of measuring the tunneling current in the MHz regime while simultaneously…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 K. M. Bastiaans , T. Benschop , D. Chatzopoulos , D. H. Cho , Q. Dong , Y. Jin , M. P. Allan

Interactions between atomic and molecular objects are to a large extent defined by the nanoscale electrostatic potentials which these objects produce. We introduce a scanning probe technique that enables three-dimensional imaging of local…

Ptychography provides highly efficient imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), but questions have remained over its applicability to strongly scattering samples such as those most commonly seen in materialsscience.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 C. Gao , C. Hofer , D. Jannis , A. Béché , J. Verbeeck , T. J. Pennycook

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revolutionized diagnostic medicine and biomedical research by allowing a noninvasive access to spin ensembles. To enhance MRI resolution to the nanometer scale, new approaches including scanning probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Philip Willke , Kai Yang , Yujeong Bae , Andreas J. Heinrich , Christopher P. Lutz

The Probe-Particle Model combine theories designed for the simulation of scanning probe microscopy experiments, employing non-reactive, flexible tip apices to achieve sub-molecular resolution. In the article we present the latest version of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Niko Oinonen , Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich , Aurelio Gallardo , Martin Ondracek , Prokop Hapala , Ondrej Krejci

Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in 1986, there has been a drive to apply this scanning probe technique or a form of this technique to various disciplines in nanoscale science. Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-28 Gustavo Cordova , Brenda Yasie Lee , Zoya Leonenko

We prove that scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of sub-surface Mn atoms in GaAs are formed by hybridization of the impurity state with intrinsic surface states. They cannot be interpreted in terms of bulk-impurity wavefunction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -M. Jancu , J. -Ch. Girard , M. Nestoklon , A. Lemaitre , F. Glas , Z. Z. Wang

Vortices play a crucial role in determining the properties of superconductors as well as their applications. Therefore, characterization and manipulation of vortices, especially at the single vortex level, is of great importance. Among many…

We show that a scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) can image buried delta-doped donor nanostructures fabricated in Si via a recently developed atomic-precision scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) lithography technique. A critical…