Recent advances in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy

You, Sifan; Lü, Jing-Tao; Guo, Jing; Jiang, Ying

doi:10.1080/23746149.2017.1372215

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“…Excellent review articles summarize these results. [ 136–141 ] In contrast, IETS of lattice vibrations has very scarcely been reported so far. Phonons of graphite, [ 142 ] Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 +δ , [ 143 ] Au(111), [ 144,145 ] Ag(100), [ 146 ] thin Pb films on Cu(111), [ 147 ] and Cu(110) [ 148 ] were previously measured using STM‐IETS.…”

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Local Probes of Graphene Lattice Dynamics

2020

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Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy with a scanning tunneling microscope is a powerful method to excite and detect vibrational quanta with atomic resolution. The focus of this review article is on the local spectroscopy of graphene phonons. The experimental observation of their spectroscopic signatures together with theoretical modeling highlight the importance of the graphene–surface as well as the graphene–tip hybridization, the electron–phonon coupling strength, phonon‐mediated tunneling, local doping profiles, and the phonon density of state for the measured signal. Meanwhile, a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms has been attained and justifies an overview on available findings.

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Local Probes of Graphene Lattice Dynamics

2020

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“…This process is named as inelastic electron tunneling. [118,119] Nanoantennas with tunneling junctions can transfer electrical energy directly to the feed point of the nanoantenna. Upon electrical biasing, the tunnel junction in a nanoantenna acts as a light source supporting broadband light emission, and the radiation pattern of the emitted light will be shaped by the nanoantenna.…”

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Directional Control of Light with Nanoantennas

Lai

Lam

et al. 2020

Advanced Optical Materials

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research fields, such as medicine, biology, and materials science. [1] These different types of optical components usually utilize the reflection, refraction, and diffraction of light to reshape the wavefronts and control the propagation direction of light in real space. [2] Although great achievements have been made in controlling light in various scopes, it is still challenging to manipulate the light direction at the subwavelength scale with the conventional optical devices. [3] The major constraint of controlling light at nanoscale is the diffraction limit of light, where the smallest resolvable feature is at the wavelength scale. The limited resolution hinders the observation of many intriguing phenomena and features at the subwavelength scale, such as biomolecules, cell components, nanoparticles and nanoscale devices. [4-7] New techniques are therefore highly demanded for subwavelength light manipulation. Nanoparticles have been introduced as a bridge to connect the gap between the macroscopic and the microscopic scale owing to their extraordinary optical properties in the manipulation of light. [8,9] In order to design nanoantennas with nanoparticles, many ideas have been borrowed from conventional macroscopic schemes. One of the most famous examples is Yagi-Uda antennas. This antenna structure was first invented by Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda in 1926. [10] The traditional Yagi-Uda antennas are usually composed of multiple parallel elements in a line, usually halfwave dipoles made of metal rods, which function as a reflector, a driving element (feed), and several directors. Each director reradiates the electromagnetic waves from the driving element at a different phase, and the reradiated waves from the multiple directors superpose and interfere to enhance the radiation in a single direction. The Yagi-Uda antennas have been widely used in analog television, shortwave communication links, radar antennas, and broadcasting stations. Inspired by this idea, Yagi-Uda nanoantennas consisting of a reflector, a feed, and several directors have also been invented. As the nanoscale counterpart, Yagi-Uda nanoantennas can redirect light emission in a desired direction with a narrow angle and enhanced signal intensity in a nanoscale region. [11,12] The detailed analysis of different Yagi-Uda nanoantennas will be introduced in Sections 3-5. The inspiring work has opened a new era for directional light control at the subwavelength scale. After the development for a decade, the techniques for directional light scattering and emitting have been enriched. Many different Light manipulation has been widely employed in lighting, display, and energy storage, becoming an inseparable part of human lives. However, the conventional optical devices suffer from the diffraction limit of electromagnetic waves. To overcome the limitation, plasmonic and dielectric nanoantennas are introduced for the control of light direction at nanoscale. The directionality of the nanoantennas stems from their electromagnetic resonance properties or ...

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“…It is used with outstanding success to identify and explore ions and other particles, defects, and elementary excitations in tunnel junctions. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] By its very nature, IETS is capable of detecting particles in ultrathin barriers or even interfaces. Other spectroscopic techniques often used to characterize ion conductors such as infrared (IR) spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, inelastic neutron scattering (INS), and Rutherford backscattering lack this efficiency.…”

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“…IETS is widely used with great success as a spectroscopy technique for scanning tunneling microscopy. [ 5,9,13,14 ] This variant of IETS is called inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We focus here on IETS performed by using planar tunnel junctions, which offer multichannel, on‐chip integration.…”

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Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy at High‐Temperatures

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Raman-active transitions. Even the optically forbidden regions that are inaccessible to IR and Raman spectroscopy are open to IETS, [2,8] making it a promising technique for solid-state ionics. If available, it would open the door to monitoring the simultaneous propagation of one or several particle species in solids separately and in real time. IETS is widely used with great success as a spectroscopy technique for scanning tunneling micro scopy. [5,9,13,14] This variant of IETS is called inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We focus here on IETS performed by using planar tunnel junctions, which offer multichannel, on-chip integration. Despite all these attractive properties, IETS has been disregarded as a technique in solid-state ionics to analyze particle motion because the temperatures necessary to study diffusion processes are high, usually well exceeding 300 K. These temperatures were under

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Recent advances in inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy

Cited by 25 publications

References 175 publications

Local Probes of Graphene Lattice Dynamics

Local Probes of Graphene Lattice Dynamics

Directional Control of Light with Nanoantennas

Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy at High‐Temperatures

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