SPECTROSCOPY OF A SINGLE ADSORBED ATOM

被引:104
作者
CROMMIE, MF
LUTZ, CP
EIGLER, DM
机构
[1] IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 48卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.48.2851
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We have used a low-temperature ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscope to perform atomically localized spectroscopic measurements on single Fe atoms adsorbed onto the Pt(111) surface. Using a simple tunneling model, we are able to quantitatively deconvolute the tip and adatom local densities of states (LDOS) from the dI/dV spectra. We find that a resonance occurs in the adatom LDOS that is centered 0.5 eV above the Fermi energy. This feature has a width of approximately 0.6 eV, and occurs only when the tip is within angstroms (laterally) of the center of an Fe adatom.
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页码:2851 / 2854
页数:4
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