Посилання:New directions in point-contact spectroscopy based
on scanning tunneling microscopy techniques
(Review Article) / E. Tartaglini, T.G.A. Verhagen, F. Galli, M.L. Trouwborst,
R. Müller, T. Shiota, J. Aarts, J.M. van Ruitenbeek // Физика низких температур. — 2013. — Т. 39, № 3. — С. 249–260. — Бібліогр.: 77 назв. — англ.
Підтримка:This work is part of the research programme of the
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM),
which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO). This work is dedicated to Igor Yanson
who has been a lasting source of inspiration for our work.
We thank Sander Otte for his contribution in the preliminary
stages of the research.
Igor Yanson showed 38 years ago for the first time a point-contact measurement where he probed the energy
resolved spectroscopy of the electronic scattering inside the metal. Since this first measurement, the pointcontact
spectroscopy (PCS) technique improved enormously. The application of the scanning probe microscopy
(SPM) techniques in the late 1980s allowed achieving contacts with a diameter of a single atom. With the introduction
of the mechanically controlled break junction technique, even spectroscopy on freely suspended chains
of atoms could be performed. In this paper, we briefly review the current developments of PCS and show recent
experiments in advanced scanning PCS based on SPM techniques. We describe some results obtained with both
needle-anvil type of point contacts and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). We also show our first attempt to
lift up with a STM a chain of single gold atoms from a Au(110) surface.