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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809771503321

Autore

Chen C. Julian

Titolo

Introduction to scanning tunneling microscopy / / C. Julian Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-773239-9

0-19-802356-1

1-4237-6461-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Collana

Oxford series in optical and imaging sciences ; ; 4

Disciplina

502/.8/2

Soggetti

Scanning tunneling microscopy

Microscopy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-404) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Gallery of STM Images; 1 Overview; PART I: IMAGING MECHANISM; PART II : INSTRUMENTATION; Appendix A: Real wavefunctions; Appendix B: Green's functions; Appendix C: Spherical modified Bessel functions; Appendix D: Two-dimensional Fourier series; Appendix E: Plane groups and invariant functions; Appendix F: Elementary elasticity theory; Appendix G: A short table of Laplace transforms; Appendix H: Operational amplifiers; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A graduate-level introduction to scanning tunnelling microscopy, which explains how the method's ability to map microscopic surfaces non-destructively has found major applications in physics, surface science, materials science, biology, chemistry and engineering.