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Review of Scientific Instruments / Volume 75 / Issue 11 / ARTICLES / MICROSCOPY AND IMAGING

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 4871 (2004); doi:10.1063/1.1794431 (9 pages)

A 300 mK ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope for spin-resolved spectroscopy at high energy resolution

J. Wiebe1, A. Wachowiak1, F. Meier1, D. Haude1, T. Foster2, M. Morgenstern1, and R. Wiesendanger1

1Institute of Applied Physics and Microstructure Research Center, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germanyc)
2Oxford Instruments Superconductivity, Tubney Woods, Oxon OX13 5QX, United Kingdom

(Received 19 May 2004; accepted 25 July 2004; published online 1 November 2004)

We describe the design and development of a scanning tunneling micoscope (STM) working at very low temperatures in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and at high magnetic fields. The STM is mounted to the 3He pot of an entirely UHV compatible 3He refrigerator inside a tube which can be baked out to achieve UHV conditions even at room temperature. A base temperature of 315 mK with a hold time of 30 h without any recondensing or refilling of cryogenics is achieved. The STM can be moved from the cryostat into a lower UHV-chamber system where STM-tips and -samples can be exchanged without breaking UHV. The chambers contain standard surface science tools for preparation and characterization of tips and samples in particular for spin-resolved scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). Test measurements using either superconducting tips or samples show that the system is adequate for performing STS with both high spatial and high energy resolution. The vertical stability of the tunnel junction is shown to be 5 pmpp and the energy resolution is about 100 μeV.

© 2004 American Institute of Physics

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

iron, niobium compounds, scanning tunnelling microscopy, cryogenics, scanning tunnelling spectroscopy, Kerr magneto-optical effect, electron spin polarisation

PACS

  • 07.79.Cz

    Scanning tunneling microscopes

  • 68.37.Ef

    Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM)

  • 07.20.Mc

    Cryogenics; refrigerators, low-temperature detectors, and other low-temperature equipment

  • 78.20.Ls

    Magneto-optical effects

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0034-6748 (print)  
1089-7623 (online)

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