Determining the temperature of a millikelvin scanning tunnelling microscope junction

Abstract Cooling the junction of a scanning tunneling microscope to millikelvin temperatures is fundamental for high-resolution scanning tunneling spectroscopy. However, accurately determining the junction temperature has proven elusive, due to the microscopic dimension of the junction and its conti...

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Main Authors: Taner Esat, Xiaosheng Yang, Farhad Mustafayev, Helmut Soltner, F. Stefan Tautz, Ruslan Temirov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01201-4