They combined a supersonic molecular beam
with scanning tunneling microscopy and froze the molecular fragments by working at low substrate temperatures.
The recent study, which was produced primarily through a research partnership between the University of Arkansas, Missouri State University and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, consisted of high - resolution transmission electron microscopy combined
with scanning tunneling microscopy and state - of - the - art computational molecular dynamics.
Dr Ohmann's colleagues from Soochow University calculated atomic structures using principles of quantum physics and then compared
them with scanning tunneling microscopy data.
Not exact matches
The researchers verified the structure of the nitrogenated crystal by atomic - resolution
scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it
with a field effect transistor.
Three - dimensional image using
scanning tunneling electron
microscopy of electrons on the surface of a Weyl semi-metal, a kind of crystal
with unusual conducting and insulating properties.
The research team consisting of Oscar Custance and Tomoko Shimizu, group leader and senior scientist, respectively, at the Atomic Force Probe Group, NIMS, Daisuke Fujita and Keisuke Sagisaka, group leader and senior researcher, respectively, at the Surface Characterization Group, NIMS, and scientists at Charles University in the Czech Republic, Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain, and other organizations combined simultaneous atomic force
microscopy (AFM) and
scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements
with first - principles calculations for the unambiguous identification of the atomic species at the most stable surface of the anatase form of titanium dioxide (hereinafter referred to as anatase) and its most common defects.
The team saw the oxygen atoms flow out of the cerium oxide clusters and slowly spread farther and farther away by combining high - resolution
scanning tunneling microscopy with a conventional surface - sensitive technique, called Auger spectroscopy.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in
scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and the 30th anniversary since the first paper in atomic force
microscopy (AFM), Nanotechnology ™ has been organising a focus collection
with guest editors Franz Giessibl, Rodolfo Miranda and Johannes Barthes to collate some of the latest cutting - edge progress developing and exploiting these
scanning probe techniques.