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[edit] Arnd Gildemeister
I am a graduate student of solid state physics at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. I want to contribute to Wikipedia what I have recently learned about scanning gate microscopy. You can find more information about me on my homepage: [1]
--Arnd.gildemeister 17:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
The rest of this page I use as a sandbox.
[edit] Scanning Gate Microscopy
Scanning gate microscopy (SGM) is a scanning probe microscopy technique with an electrically conductive tip used as a movable gate that couples capacitively to the sample and probes electrical transport on the nanometer scale. Typical samples are mesoscopic devices, often based on semiconductor heterostructures, such as quantum point contacts or quantum dots. Carbon nanotubes too have been investigated.
In SGM one measures the sample's electrical conductance as a function of tip position and tip potential. This is in contrast to other microscopy techniques where the tip is used as a sensor, e.g., for forces.
SGMs were developed in the late 1990s from atomic force microscopes. Most importantly, these had to be adapted for use at low temperatures, often 4 Kelvin or less, as the samples under study do not work at higher temperatures. Today an estimated number of ten research groups worldwide use the technique.
[edit] References
- Coherent Branched Flow in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas: A. Topinka et al., Nature 410, 183 (2001)
- Scanned Probe Imaging of Single-Electron Charge States in Nanotube Quantum Dots: M. T. Woodside and P. L. McEuen, Science 296, 1098 (2002)
- Spatially Resolved Manipulation of Single Electrons in Quantum Dots Using a Scanned Probe: A. Pioda et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 216801 (2004)
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