scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Topic

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy

About: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7886 publications have been published within this topic receiving 213828 citations.


Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope was used to study the electron scattering of isolated Ce adatoms on Ag(111) surfaces, and the dip spectrum was interpreted as a Fano interference for the limit where the $f$ orbital has a very small matrix element.
Abstract: Electron scattering of isolated Ce adatoms on Ag(111) surfaces was studied with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Tunneling spectra obtained on and near Ce reveal a characteristic dip around the Fermi energy which is absent for nonmagnetic Ag adatoms. This feature is detected over a few atomic diameters around Ce atoms at the surface. The transition matrix element from the localized $f$ electron to the tunnel-current carrying continuum states bears a strong resemblance to discrete autoionized states. We interpret the dip spectrum as a Fano interference for the limit where the $f$ orbital has a very small matrix element.

525 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
16 Aug 2002-Science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that quasiparticle interference, due to elastic scattering between characteristic regions of momentum-space, provides a consistent explanation for the conductance modulations, without appeal to another order parameter.
Abstract: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta reveals weak, incommensurate, spatial modulations in the tunneling conductance. Images of these energy-dependent modulations are Fourier analyzed to yield the dispersion of their wavevectors. Comparison of the dispersions with photoemission spectroscopy data indicates that quasiparticle interference, due to elastic scattering between characteristic regions of momentum-space, provides a consistent explanation for the conductance modulations, without appeal to another order parameter. These results refocus attention on quasiparticle scattering processes as potential explanations for other incommensurate phenomena in the cuprates. The momentum-resolved tunneling spectroscopy demonstrated here also provides a new technique with which to study quasiparticles in correlated materials.

497 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the conductance of metal-metal oxide-metal tunneling junctions has been observed to increase at certain characteristic bias voltages, which are identified with vibrational frequencies of molecules contained in the barrier.
Abstract: The conductance of metal-metal oxide-metal tunneling junctions has been observed to increase at certain characteristic bias voltages. These voltages are identified with vibrational frequencies of molecules contained in the barrier.

497 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the tunneling current versus voltage is measured at fixed values of separation between a tungsten probe-tip and a Si(111)2 × 1 surface as mentioned in this paper.

481 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Detailed calculations using the InAlAs/InGaAs material system reveal that a splitting of a peak should be observed in the I-V curve of this device as a result of the spin-filtering effect.
Abstract: We propose an electronic spin-filter device that uses a nonmagnetic triple barrier resonant tunneling diode (TB-RTD). This device combines the spin-split resonant tunneling levels induced by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and the spin blockade phenomena between two regions separated by the middle barrier in the TB-RTD. Detailed calculations using the InAlAs/InGaAs material system reveal that a splitting of a peak should be observed in the I-V curve of this device as a result of the spin-filtering effect. The filtering efficiency exceeds 99.9% at the peak positions in the I-V curve.

477 citations


Network Information
Related Topics (5)
Band gap
86.8K papers, 2.2M citations
93% related
Quantum dot
76.7K papers, 1.9M citations
92% related
Magnetization
107.8K papers, 1.9M citations
90% related
Thin film
275.5K papers, 4.5M citations
90% related
Photoluminescence
83.4K papers, 1.8M citations
89% related
Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202345
202289
2021128
2020143
2019134
2018159