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A scanner for an ultrahigh-vacuum low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope

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A scanner for an ultrahigh-vacuum low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope is described. It has a high resonance frequency (>30 kHz) and a small thermal-drift rate (≤1 nm/°C) at room temperature. The scanner feeds the tip to the sample at a distance of up to 3 mm and positions it in the sample plane on a 4 × 4-mm area. These characteristics of the scanner allow one to study atomic structures at temperature variations from 5 to 300 K with objects under study remaining in view of the microscope. The scanner has a horizontal attachment for a sample with a size of up to 6 × 6 × 3mm and ensures a scanning field of 4.8 × 4.8 × 0.6 μm at 300 K and 0.8 × 0.8 × 0.1 μm at 5 K, as well as the possibility of heating to 150°C and easily replacing the sample and tip with vacuum manipulators.

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  1. Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology, Technical University, proezd 4805, 5, Zelenograd, Moscow, 124498, Russia

    B. A. Loginov

  2. Center of Natural Scientific Studies, Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, korp. L2, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    K. N. El’tsov, A. N. Klimov & V. M. Shevlyuga

  3. Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Mokhovaya 11, korp. 7, Moscow, 125009, Russia

    S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Loginov, K.N. El’tsov, S.V. Zaitsev-Zotov, A. N. Klimov, V.M. Shevlyuga, 2007, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2007, No. 3, pp. 148–149.

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Loginov, B.A., El’tsov, K.N., Zaitsev-Zotov, S.V. et al. A scanner for an ultrahigh-vacuum low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Instrum Exp Tech 50, 422–423 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441207030232

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