Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Related Methods

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy — Methods and Variations....Pages 1-25
A Brief Introduction to Tunneling Theory....Pages 27-57
Tunneling Times for One-Dimensional Barriers....Pages 59-76
Theory of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy....Pages 77-95
Theory of tunneling from transition metal tips....Pages 97-111
Tip- Surface Interactions....Pages 113-141
On the Quantized Conductance of Small Contacts....Pages 143-156
Adiabatic Evolution and Resonant Tunneling through a One Dimensional Constriction....Pages 157-161
What do We Mean by Work Function” ?....Pages 163-172
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Metal Surfaces, Adsorption and Surface Reactions....Pages 173-209
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Semiconductor Surfaces, Adsorption, and Epitaxy....Pages 211-240
Spectroscopy Using Conduction Electrons....Pages 241-267
Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscopy (Stom) of Silver Nanostructures....Pages 269-280
Surface Modification with the STM and the AFM....Pages 281-297
Scanning Probe Microscopy of Liquid-Solid Interfaces....Pages 299-313
In-situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Electrochemistry....Pages 315-333
Imaging and Conductivity of Biological and Organic Material....Pages 335-347
Study of the Biocompatibility of Surgical Implant Materials at the Atomic and Molecular Level Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 349-358
Naked DNA Helicity Observed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 359-365
Applications of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Layered Materials, Organic Charge Transfer Complexes and Conductive Polymers....Pages 367-376
Electron Tunneling Through a Molecule....Pages 377-389
Electronic Transport in Disordered Organic Chains....Pages 391-398
Electron and Ion Point Sources, Properties and Applications....Pages 399-407
Field Electron Emission from Atomic-Size Microtips....Pages 409-441
Force Microscopy....Pages 443-467
Electret-Condensor-Microphone used as a very sensitive Force Sensor....Pages 469-474
Resolution and Contrast Generation in Scanning Near Field Optical Microscopy....Pages 475-496
Scanning Tunneling Optical Microscopy....Pages 497-505
Scanning Nearfield Acoustic Microscopy....Pages 507-514
Back Matter....Pages 515-525