A very low temperature scanning tunneling microscope for the local spectroscopy of mesoscopic structures
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 72 (1), 128-131
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1331328
Abstract
We present the design and operation of a very low temperature scanning tunneling microscope(STM) working at 60 mK in a dilution refrigerator. The STM features both atomic resolution and micron-sized scanning range at low temperature. We achieved an efficient thermalization of the sample while maintaining a clean surface for STMimaging. Our spectroscopic data show unprecedented energy resolution. We present current–voltage characteristics and the deduced local density of states of hybrid superconductor–normal metalsystems. This work is the first experimental realization of a local spectroscopy of mesoscopic structures at very low temperature.Keywords
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