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Rate of energy dissipation of the thermal fluctuation field of the sample at the tip of a tunneling microscope

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It is shown that the rate of energy dissipation of the thermal field of a sample at the tip of a microscope is inversely proportional to the cube of the distance between tip and sample.

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  1. Institute of Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod

    I. A. Dorofeev

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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 23, 49–53 (February 12, 1997)

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Dorofeev, I.A. Rate of energy dissipation of the thermal fluctuation field of the sample at the tip of a tunneling microscope. Tech. Phys. Lett. 23, 109–110 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1261580

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