Tunneling through a controllable vacuum gap by Gerd Binnig and others (1982, 10.1063/1.92999)

By Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ch. Gerber, E. Weibel.

Publisher: American Institute of Physics.

Published in Applied Physics Letters.

Online text: doi.org/10.1063/1.92999

Online text: www.scribd.com/document/458807749/STM2-pdf

Cited passages: Primary paper reprint, p. 178, Fig. 1: tungsten tip, platinum plate, piezodrive and helium-cooled superconducting lead bowl; Primary paper reprint, p. 179, equation (1), Fig. 2 and accompanying control/limitation discussion.