Tunneling microscopy, lithography, and surface diffusion on an easily prepared, atomically flat gold surface
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 63 (3) , 717-721
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.340062
Abstract
We show that a gold surface with atomically flat terraces as large as (150 nm)2 can be easily prepared in air by melting a gold wire with an oxyacetylene torch. Features with characteristic dimensions as low as 10 nm can be written and observed on these terraces with a scanning tunneling microscope. The features are appreciably distorted by diffusion within an hour.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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