Scanning tunneling microscopy is a novel imaging technique that can produce stunning pictures of both inanimate and biological materials. This book is the first of three volumes that together provide the first ever comprehensive introduction to, and review of, this explosively developing field.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy I provides a unique introduction to a novel and fascinating technique that produces beautiful images of nature on an atomic scale. It is the first of three volumes that together offer a comprehensive treatment of scanning tunneling microscopy, its diverse applications, and its theoretical treatment. In this volume the reader will find a detailed description of the technique itself and of its applications to metals, semiconductors, layered materials, adsorbed molecules and superconductors. In addition to the many representative results reviewed, extensive references to original work will help to make accessible the vast body of knowledge already accumulated in this field.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Historical Remarks on Electron Tunneling.- 1.2 STM and Related Techniques.- 1.3 Development of the Field.- 1.4 Prospects for the Future.- 2. The Rise of Local Probe Methods.- 3. STM on Metals.- 3.1 Tunneling Tip.- 3.2 Tunneling Spectroscopies.- 3.3 Examples on Metal Surfaces.- 3.4 Conclusion.- 4. Adsorbate Covered Metal Surfaces and Reactions on Metal Surfaces.- 4.1 Imaging of Adsorbates by STM.- 4.2 Processes at the Metal-Gas Interface.- 4.3 Structure Modifications of Metal Surfaces.- 4.4 Epitaxial Growth of Metals on Metal Substrates.- 4.5 Conclusions.- 5. STM on Semiconductors.- 5.1 Experimental Technique.- 5.2 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy on Surfaces.- 5.3 Other Tunneling Techniques Applied to Semiconductors.- 6. STM on Layered Materials.- 6.1 STM Studies of Graphite.- 6.2 STM Studies of Graphite Intercalation Compounds.- 6.3 STM Studies of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.- 6.4 STM Studies of Charge Density Waves.- 6.5 STM Studies of High-Tc Superconductors.- 6.6 Concluding Comments.- 7. Molecular Imaging by STM.- 7.1 Introduction to STM of Molecules.- 7.2 STM of Chemisorbed Molecules in Ultrahigh Vacuum.- 7.3 STM of Alkanes and Their Derivatives.- 7.4 STM of Liquid Crystals.- 7.5 STM of Polymers.- 7.6 Other Molecules.- 7.7 Conclusions.- 8. STM on Superconductors.- 8.1 Theory of TunneUng into Superconductors.- 8.2 Low Temperature STM Spectroscopy on Classical Superconductors.- 8.3 Vortices.- 8.4 Organic Superconductors.- 8.5 STM Topography on High-Tc Superconductors.- 8.6 STM Spectroscopy on High-Tc Superconductors.- 8.7 Concluding Remarks.- References.