Design considerations and performance of a combined scanning tunneling and scanning electron microscope
作者:
A. Wiessner,
J. Kirschner,
G. Scha¨fer,
Th. Berghaus,
期刊:
Review of Scientific Instruments
(AIP Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 68,
issue 10
页码: 3790-3798
ISSN:0034-6748
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1063/1.1148028
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We designed and built a combination of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and a scanning electron microscope (SEM) which is working under ultrahigh vacuum conditions (base pressure typically7⋅10−11 mbar). The SEM is ideally used for surveying the sample and to control the STM tip positioning, while the STM extends the resolution range into the atomic scale. The design concept allows moving the STM tip freely over the sample under SEM control and using both imaging techniques simultaneously. The system is equipped with an electron energy analyzer (cylindrical sector analyzer) providing Auger electron spectroscopy, scanning Auger microscopy (SAM) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy capabilities. In addition, low energy electron diffraction and reflection high energy electron diffraction facilities are installed. In order to use these very different imaging techniquesin situ, several special solutions had to be incorporated in the design of the system; they are described in detail. Some results are presented which demonstrate the performance of the STM/SEM system. Atomic resolution of the STM, a SEM resolution of up to 20 nm, and a SAM resolution of better than 100 nm were achieved. ©1997 American Institute of Physics.
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