Colloquium: Time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy

Houselt van, Arie and Zandvliet, Harold J.W. (2010) Colloquium: Time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy. Reviews of Modern Physics, 82 (2). pp. 1593-1605. ISSN 0034-6861

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Abstract:	Scanning tunneling microscopy has revolutionized our ability to image, study, and manipulate solid surfaces on the size scale of atoms. One important limitation of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is, however, its poor time resolution. Recording a standard image with a STM typically takes about a fraction of a second for a fast scanning STM to several tens of seconds for a standard STM. The time resolution of a STM can, however, be significantly enhanced by at least several orders of magnitude. Here various methods are reviewed that are applied in order to significantly improve the time resolution of STM. These methods include high-speed or video STM, atom-tracking STM, and monitoring of the open feedback loop current or closed feedback loop z-piezo-voltage signals as a function of time. An analysis of the time-resolved STM data allows one to map out the potential landscape of the system under study.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Catalytic Processes and Materials (CPM) Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72810
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1593
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