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Inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy provides unique information about vibrational and electronic transitions that are forbidden to photon-induced processes

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Hipps, K. Tunnelling reveals forbidden transitions. Nature 326, 107–108 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/326107a0

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