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NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 22, 期 29, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/29/295710
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资金
- GAAV [M100100904, IAA100100905]
- GACR [204/10/0952]
- Czech Science Foundation (GACR) [P204/11/P578]
- Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (GAAV) [KAN311610701]
- MICINN, Spain [MAT2008-02929-NAN, MAT2008-02939-E, CSD2010-00024]
- Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain [S2009/MAT-1467]
A Si adatom on a Si(111)-(7 x 7) reconstructed surface is a typical atomic feature that can rather easily be imaged by a non-contact atomic force microscope (nc-AFM) and can be thus used to test the atomic resolution of the microscope. Based on our first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we demonstrate that the structure of the termination of the AFM tip plays a decisive role in determining the appearance of the adatom image. We show how the AFM image changes depending on the tip-surface distance and the composition of the atomic apex at the end of the tip. We also demonstrate that contaminated tips may give rise to image patterns displaying so-called 'sub-atomic' features even in the attractive force regime.
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