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Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) experiments on ultrathin films with non-collinear spin textures demonstrate that resonant tunneling allows for atomic-scale spin-sensitive imaging in real space at tip-sample distances…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Anika Schlenhoff , Stepan Kovarik , Stefan Krause , Roland Wiesendanger

Terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy (THz-STM) has emerged as a potent technique for probing ultrafast nanoscale dynamics with exceptional spatiotemporal precision, whereby the acquisition of THz near-field waveforms holds paramount…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hongbo Li , Tianwu Wang , Wenyin Wei , Kai Zhang , Jing-yin Xu , Yirong Wu , Guangyou Fang

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions are one of the building blocks for spintronic memories, which allow fast nonvolatile data access, offering substantial potentials to revolutionize the mainstream computing architecture. However,…

We present the construction and performance of a plug-n-play type point contact spectroscopy probe equipped with a piezo-driven coarse approach mechanism for sub-kelvin applications. A modular assembly has been built which can be placed in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Shekhar Das , Goutam Sheet

We introduce a method for a combined calculation of charge and vector spin transport of elastically tunneling electrons in magnetic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The method is based on the three-dimensional Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Krisztián Palotás , Gábor Mándi , László Szunyogh

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been a fundamental tool to characterize many-body effects in condensed matter systems, from extended solids to quantum dots. STM of molecules decoupled from the supporting conductive substrate has the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 Dimitrios Toroz , Massimo Rontani , Stefano Corni

Combining electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) enables detailed insight into the interactions and magnetic properties of single atoms on surfaces. A requirement for EPR-STM is the efficient coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 T. S. Seifert , S. Kovarik , C. Nistor , L. Persichetti , S. Stepanow , P. Gambardella

Spin filtering and its back-action spin transfer torque (STT) are key ingredients of latest spintronic devices based on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Resonant tunneling (RT), implemented by design or occurring as parasitic effects, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Maciej Bazarnik , Anika Schlenhoff

We propose a novel scanning tunneling microscope (STM) device in which the tunneling tip is formed by a Majorana bound state (MBS). This peculiar bound state exists at the boundary of a one-dimensional topological superconductor. Since the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-31 Oleksiy Kashuba , Björn Sothmann , Pablo Burset , Björn Trauzettel

We propose a new method for atomic-scale imaging of spatial current patterns in nanoscopic quantum networks by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). By measuring the current flowing from the STM tip into one of the leads attached to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tankut Can , Dirk K. Morr

The inelastic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been shown recently (Loth et al. Science 329, 1628 (2010)) to be extendable as to access the nanosecond, spin-resolved dynamics of magnetic adatoms and molecules. Here we analyze…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael Schüler , Yaroslav Pavlyukh , Jamal Berakdar

We describe an all-optical lithography process that can be used to make electrical contact to atomic-precision donor devices made in silicon using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). This is accomplished by implementing a cleaning…

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become the main stay for materials characterization on atomic level, with applications ranging from visualization of localized and extended defects to mapping order parameter fields. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-15 Xin Li , Ondrej Dyck , Sergei V. Kalinin , Stephen Jesse

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

Robust spin-photon interfaces in solids are essential components in quantum networking and sensing technologies. Ideally, these interfaces combine a long-lived spin memory, coherent optical transitions, fast and high-fidelity spin…

Scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) are used extensively for studying and manipulating matter at the atomic scale. In spite of the critical role of the STM tip, the control of the atomic-scale shape of STM tips remains a poorly solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Sumit Tewari , Koen M. Bastiaans , Milan P. Allan , Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

A theoretical description of scanning tunneling potentoimetry (STP) measurement is presented to address the increasing need for a basis to interpret experiments on macrscopic samples. Based on a heuristic understanding of STP provided to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Weigang Wang , Malcolm R. Beasley

Fine structures in the tunneling spectra of superconductors have been widely used to identify fingerprints of the interaction responsible for Cooper pairing. Here we show that for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of Pb, the inclusion of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-10 Jasmin Jandke , Patrik Hlobil , Michael Schackert , Wulf Wulfhekel , Jörg Schmalian

Recent advances in transformer-based lightweight object tracking have established new standards across benchmarks, leveraging the global receptive field and powerful feature extraction capabilities of attention mechanisms. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Junze Shi , Yang Yu , Jian Shi , Haibo Luo