Theory and Application for the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- 20 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (25) , 1998-2001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1998
Abstract
A theory is presented for vacuum tunneling between a real solid surface and a model probe with a locally spherical tip, applicable to the recently developed "scanning tunneling microscope." Calculations for 2×1 and 3×1 reconstructions of Au(110) are in excellent agreement with recent experimental results, if an effective radius of curvature of 9 Å is assumed for the tip.Keywords
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