Theory of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

2014/04/03 by Samir Lounis, Lounis, Samir
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Near-Field Optical Microscopy #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1404.0961

38 pages, 45th IFF Spring School: Computing Solids: Models, Ab-initio Methods and Supercomputing organized at the research center of Juelich

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Abstract

This lecture has been given at the 45th Spring School: Computing Solids: Models, Ab-initio Methods and Supercomputing organized at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. The goal of this manuscript is to review the basics behind the theory accompanying Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

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