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We constructed a dilution-refrigerator (DR) based ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (ULT-STM) which works at temperatures down to 30 mK, in magnetic fields up to 6 T and in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV). Besides these extreme…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kambara , T. Matsui , Y. Niimi , H. Fukuyama

Scanning Surface Potential Microscopy (SSPM) is one of the most widely used techniques for the characterization of electrical properties at small dimensions. Applicability of SSPM and related electrostatic scanning probe microscopies for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei V. Kalinin , Marcus Freitag , A. T. Johnson , Dawn A. Bonnell

We present PyAtoms, an interactive open-source software that rapidly simulates atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and other scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, moir\'{e} systems,…

A method for subsurface visualization and characterization of hidden subsurface nano-structures based on Scanning Tuneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy (STM/STS) has been developed. The nano-objects buried under a metal surface up to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Oleg Kurnosikov , Muriel Sicot , Emilie Gaudry , Danielle Pierre , Yuan Lu , Stéphane Mangin

Reduction of the inter-probe distance in multi-probe and double-tip STM down to the nanometer scale has been a longstanding and technically difficult challenge. Recent multi-probe systems have allowed for significant progress by achieving…

In this study, we present a novel platform based on scanning microwave microscopy for manipulating and detecting tiny vibrations of nanoelectromechanical resonators using a single metallic tip. The tip is placed on the top of a grounded…

Improving the detailed understanding of the underlying properties and functions of biomolecules has recently attracted growing interest, enabled by the possibility of real-space imaging of single, intact macromolecules using Scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Tim J. Seifert , Dhaneesh Kumar , Markus Etzkorn , Stephan Rauschenbach , Klaus Kern , Kelvin Anggara , Uta Schlickum

Many new material systems are being explored to enable smaller, more capable and energy efficient devices. These bottom up approaches for atomic and molecular electronics, quantum computation, and data storage all rely on a well-developed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-11 Roshan Achal , Mohammad Rashidi , Jeremiah Croshaw , Taleana Huff , Robert A. Wolkow

We propose an atom-superposition-based method for simulating spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) from first principles. Our approach provides bias dependent STM images in high spatial resolution, with the capability of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-28 Krisztián Palotás , Werner A. Hofer , László Szunyogh

The integration of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful and innovative tool for discerning spin excitations and spin-spin interactions within atoms and molecules…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Lyuzhou Ye , Xiao Zheng , Xin Xu

We present a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) technique to simultaneously measure the topography, the local tunnel barrier height (dI/dz) and the differential conductivity (dI/dV). We modulate the voltage and tip piezo with small…

Controlled atomic scale fabrication of functional devices is one of the holy grails of nanotechnology. The most promising class of techniques that enable deterministic nanodevice fabrication are based on scanning probe patterning or surface…

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a magnetic tip that has a sufficiently strong spin-polarization can be used to map the sample's spin structure down to the atomic scale but usually lacks the possibility to absolutely determine the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-26 Lucas Schneider , Philip Beck , Jens Wiebe , Roland Wiesendanger

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a valuable technique by which one can investigate the physical characteristics of the surfaces of materials. However, its widespread use is hampered by the time-consuming nature of running an experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-03 Nicholas J. Sullivan , Julio J. Valdés , Kirk H. Bevan , Peter Grutter

An extension of the direct-current, double-lamella drop-off technique for electrochemically etching tungsten scanning-tunneling-microscope tips is presented. The key fabrication step introduced here is the use of an etch stop as a simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 G. Basnet , J. K. Schoelz , P. Xu , S. D. Barber , M. L. Ackerman , P. M. Thibado

Compressed sensing (CS) is a valuable technique for reconstructing measurements in numerous domains. CS has not yet gained widespread adoption in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), despite potentially offering the advantages of lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Brian E. Lerner , Anayeli Flores-Garibay , Benjamin J. Lawrie , Petro Maksymovych

We report the achievement of the first atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscope (STM) imaging in a water-cooled magnet (WM), where the extremely harsh vibrations and noises have been the major challenge. This homebuilt WM-STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Wenjie Meng , Ying Guo , Yubin Hou , Qingyou Lu

We present a method to produce superconducting tips to be used in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy experiments. We use these tips to investigate the evolution of the electronic density of states of NbSe2 from 0.3K up to its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. G. Rodrigo , S. Vieira

Here we find the increase in 1/f noise of superconducting resonators at low temperatures to be completely incompatible with the standard tunneling model (STM) of Two Level Systems (TLS), which has been used to describe low-frequency noise…

Over the last two decades, scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has become one of the most important ways to investigate the structure of crystal surfaces. STM has helped achieve remarkable successes in surface science such as finding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian V. Ciobanu , Cristian Predescu