Carbon-fiber tips for scanning probe microscopes and molecular electronics experiments
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Carbon-fiber tips for scanning probe microscopes and molecular electronics experiments
We fabricate and characterize carbon-fiber tips for their use in combined scanning tunneling and force microscopy based on piezoelectric quartz tuning fork force sensors. An electrochemical fabrication procedure to etch the tips is used to yield reproducible sub-100-nm apex. We also study electron transport through single-molecule junctions formed by a single octanethiol molecule bonded by the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nanoscale Research Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1556-276X
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276x-7-254