Sensing the quantum limit in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy

The tunnelling current in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy has often been treated by a continuous charge flow, which lacks proper treatment of charge quantization. Here, Ast et al. unveil the effects of granularity in the tunnelling current at extremely low temperatures by including P(E) theory, the...

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Main Authors: Christian R. Ast, Berthold Jäck, Jacob Senkpiel, Matthias Eltschka, Markus Etzkorn, Joachim Ankerhold, Klaus Kern
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/8037b657263c44e0b297e1860d25be5b
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Summary:The tunnelling current in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy has often been treated by a continuous charge flow, which lacks proper treatment of charge quantization. Here, Ast et al. unveil the effects of granularity in the tunnelling current at extremely low temperatures by including P(E) theory, thereby reaching the quantum limit in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy.