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Preparation of Fe STM tips for room-temperature spin-polarized tunneling spectroscopy

2024/06/21 by Jȩdrzej Tepper, Tepper, Jȩdrzej, J. M. van Ruitenbeek +1
Materials Science · Engineering · #Magnetic Properties and Applications #Non-Destructive Testing Techniques

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.15220

Abstract

We present a recipe based on field-directed Ar ion etching of iron tips that results in probes suitable for stable spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy. This is illustrated by a measurement of the spectroscopic mapping of the magnetization of Co islands on Cu(111).

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