Fermi surface contours obtained from scanning tunneling microscope images around surface point defects

Autor: N V Khotkevych-Sanina, Yu A Kolesnichenko, J M van Ruitenbeek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 123013 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/12/123013
Popis: We present a theoretical analysis of the standing wave patterns in scanning tunneling microscope (STM) images, which occur around surface point defects. We consider arbitrary dispersion relations for the surface states and calculate the conductance for a system containing a small-size tunnel contact and a surface impurity. We find rigorous theoretical relations between the interference patterns in the real-space STM images, their Fourier transforms and the Fermi contours of two-dimensional electrons. We propose a new method for reconstructing Fermi contours of surface electron states, directly from the real-space STM images around isolated surface defects.
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