{
  "id": "1201.3086",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-01-15T11:59:08.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-01-15T11:59:08.000Z",
  "title": "Conductance of a STM contact on the surface of a thin film",
  "authors": [
    "N. V. Khotkevych",
    "Yu. A. Kolesnichenko",
    "J. M. van Ruitenbeek"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 5 figures",
  "journal": "Low Temp. Phys. 38, 503 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1063/1.4723673",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The conductance of a contact, having a radius smaller than the Fermi wave length, on the surface of a thin metal film is investigated theoretically. It is shown that quantization of the electron energy spectrum in the film leads to a step-like dependence of differential conductance G(V) as a function of applied bias eV. The distance between neighboring steps in eV equals the energy level spacing due to size quantization. We demonstrate that a study of G(V) for both signs of the voltage maps the spectrum of energy levels above and below Fermi surface in scanning tunneling experiments.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-01-15T11:59:08.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.25.+i",
      "68.37.Ef",
      "73.61.At",
      "71.18.+y"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "thin film",
      "stm contact",
      "energy level",
      "electron energy spectrum",
      "thin metal film"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "AIP",
      "journal": "Low Temperature Physics",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Jun",
      "volume": 38,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": 503
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012LTP....38R.503K"
    }
  }
}