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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 63: Posters: Scanning Probe Methods

O 63.9: Poster

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 17:30–21:00, P2

Application of Bardeen’s tunneling formula for the calculation of STM data — •Steffen Seiler1, Roman Kováčik2, and Bernd Meyer11Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials and Computer-Chemistry-Center, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg — 2Peter Grünberg Institute and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich

The tunneling current in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is determined by a convolution of the electronic structure of the tip and the substrate. However, in the most commonly used method for calculating STM data, the Tersoff-Hamann approximation [1], all specific details of the tip electronic structure are neglected. One step beyond this simplification is Bardeen’s perturbation approach [2], in which the tip electronic structure is explicitly taken into account.
Both methods have been implemented in our STM simulation program [3]. The code was recently largely extended and modified, most importantly by including multiple k-points and fractional occupation numbers for a proper treatment of metallic systems. The program was tested for various oxidized Cu surface structures and tip models. Different benchmark tests were carried out, all confirming the correct functionality of the program and giving some interesting insights into the electronic structure of CuOx monolayers on a Cu(111) substrate.


[1] J. Tersoff, D. Hamann, Phys. Rev. B 31, 805 (1985).
[2] J. Bardeen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 6, 57 (1961).
[3] R. Kováčik, B. Meyer, D. Marx, Angew. Chem. IE, 46, 4894 (2007).

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