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Over the past few years, vibrational tunneling spectroscopy has become an important surface and interface spectroscopy with applications to the study of adsorption phenomena and heterogeneous catalysis. But in these fields, the understanding of the electronic states of molecules is also of fundamental importance. What information can inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) provide?
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de Cheveigné, S., Klein, J., Léger, A. (1982). Electronic Transitions Studied by Tunneling Spectroscopy. In: Hansma, P.K. (eds) Tunneling Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1152-2_4
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