A very low current scanning tunneling microscope
作者:
David Dunlap,
Steve Smith,
Carlos Bustamante,
Javier Tamayo,
Ricardo Garci´a,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 66,
issue 10
页码: 4876-4879
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1063/1.1146168
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The applications of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in air are usually restricted to good conducting materials as clean metals, doped and passivated semiconductors, or to some molecular adsorbates deposited onto graphite. In order to study poor conducting materials as biological molecules, we have built a very low current STM. This instrument can routinely be operated at 0.1 pA while having a bandwidth of 7 kHz. The advantages of using very low currents are illustrated by imaging 5‐nm‐thick purple membranes. These membranes can only be imaged at currents smaller than 2 pA. ©1995 American Institute of Physics.
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