High-yield electrochemical etching of nanometrically defined Fe STM tips

2024/11/13 by Tepper, Jędrzej, van Ruitenbeek, Jan M.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.08996

Abstract

A reproducible procedure for creating STM tips with nanometrically defined apices out of 0.25mm iron wire is presented.

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