UNDERWATER SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY OF ORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES

被引:15
作者
MOU, JX
SUN, WJ
YAN, JJ
YANG, WS
LIU, C
ZHAI, ZH
XU, Q
XIE, YC
机构
[1] BEIJING UNIV,DEPT BIOL,BEIJING 100871,PEOPLES R CHINA
[2] BEIJING UNIV,DEPT CHEM,BEIJING 100871,PEOPLES R CHINA
来源
JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B | 1991年 / 9卷 / 03期
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10.1116/1.585425
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
With a collection of images taken with the scanning tunneling microscope from the samples of several different organic and biological molecules adsorbed on graphite and/or gold substrates and covered with a very thin layer of 50% glycerol-water solution we show that covering such samples with the solution could facilitate imaging of them and improve the quality of images thus collected, and very often images with atomic resolution could be obtained.
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页码:1566 / 1569
页数:4
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