Theoretical approach to the scanning tunneling microscope
- 15 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 42 (3) , 1629-1637
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.42.1629
Abstract
Within a one-electron approach, based on a Green’s-function formalism, a nonperturbative expression for the tunneling current is obtained and used to discuss which spectroscopic information may be deduced from a scanning-tunneling-microscope experiment. It is shown up to which limits the voltage dependence of the tunneling current reproduces the local density of states at the surface, and how the reflection coefficients of the electronic waves at the surface may modify it.Keywords
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