Hot electron cascades in the scanning tunneling microscope
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

The nonequilibrium distribution of electrons at the junction of a scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by detecting photons with energies hv > eV, where V is the bias voltage. Electrons are found at energies exceeding the Fermi level by almost eV. While their distribution deviates from a Fermi-Dirac function it is consistent with a model of hot electrons and holes that diffuse in energy and real space.

conductors

gold

light-emission

copper

films

Författare

N. L. Schneider

Peter Johansson

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Bionanofotonik

R. Berndt

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

24699950 (ISSN) 24699969 (eISSN)

Vol. 87 4 art. no.:045409- 045409

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.87.045409

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