signature=4623c3d3408491ef6534d11dfcfda77e,简单紧凑高刚性扫描隧道显微镜的研制

CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS VOLUME 31, NUMBER 5 OCTOBER 27, 2018

ARTICLE

A Simple, Compact and Rigid Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Wei-feng Gea, Ji-hao Wangb, Yu-bin Houb, Qing-you Lua,b,c∗

a. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Tech-

nology of China, Hefei 230026, China

b. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, High Magnetic

Field Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

c. Collaborative Innovation Center for Artificial Microstructure and Quantum Control, Nanjing Univer-

sity, Nanjing 210093, China

(Dated: Received on December 22, 2017; Accepted on February 27, 2018)

We present a homebuilt scanning tunneling microscope (STM) which employs an inner-wall

polished sapphire guiding tube as a rail for the scanner to form a short tip-sample mechanical

loop. The scanner is mounted on a square rod which is housed in the guiding tube and held

by a spring strip. The stiff sapphire guiding tube allows the STM body to be made in a

simple, compact and rigid form. Also the material of sapphire improves the thermal stability

of the STM for its good thermal conductivity. To demonstrate the performance of the STM,

high quality atomic-resolution STM images of high oriented pyrolytic graphite were given.

Key words: Scanning tunneling microscope, Sapphire guiding tube, Finite element analy-

ses, Atomic-resolution image

I. INTRODUCTION

The scanning tunneling micros