Vacuum tunneling

Gerd Binnig; Heinrich Rohrer; Christoph Gerber; Eduard Weibel

doi:10.1016/0378-4363(82)90241-8

Physica B+C

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01 Jan 1982

Vacuum tunneling

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Abstract

We report on an experiment of tunneling through an externally-adjustable vacuum-tunnel barrier. This allowed the first observation of a continuous exponential dependence of the current on tunnel distance with a resolution of about 0.2 Å. © 1982.

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