Abstract:

Elevated temperature scanning tunneling microscopy is used to study oxides that are room temperature insulators but become sufficiently electrically conducting at higher temperatures to allow imaging to be performed. Atomic resolution images of NiO, CoO, and UO(2) have been obtained in this fashion which allow surface structure and defect determination. To complement the experiments, modeling of the electronic surface structure reveals which atomic sites give rise to the contrast observed in ...

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