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Can STM see below a surface?! Yes!!! Is it really possible? Sure, down to 100 nm ! Exploring a subsurface in metals with STM O. Kurnosikov o.kurnosikov@tue.nl Introduction: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy In selected points For


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Can STM see below a surface?! Yes!!! Is it really possible? Sure, down to 100 nm !

Exploring a subsurface in metals with STM

  • O. Kurnosikov
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Introduction: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy

7.8Å

Topography

Cu(111)

atomic resolution Conductance mapping For each (x,y) Spectroscopy (STS)

reflects the Density of States

In selected points

Resolution Lateral : atomic, ~0.1nm Vertical : subatomic, ~0.001nm

Two ways of get the subsurface sensibility:

  • 1. Subatomic variation of the relief
  • 2. Perturbation of surface electron

density

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Co nanoclusters embedded below Cu(001) surface, 75 x 75 nm 2.

20 pm

Ar bubble below Cu(001) surface, 30 x 15 nm 2.

Deformation

Relief variation

Mismatch of crystalline lattices of substrate and impurity atoms or embedded nanocluster . Relaxation of crystalline lattice and interaction of embedded atoms

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Buried nanocavities and clusters: TU/e results

[110] [110]

60×60 nm2

500mV 600mV 500mV 400mV

60×60 nm2

Ar nanocavities in Cu(001), the same area, different bias Ar nanocavities in Cu(110), the same area, different bias What we have and what we see

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

DE110 DEss

if ΔΕ=0,25 mV then d = 12 nm

Ar-, Ne- or He- filled nanocavities have much stronger scattering effect and therefore they can be detected much dipper than single impurities

  • atoms. The nanocavities are

visualized in STM measurements as spots of different contrast above their locations. The contrast

  • scillates with bias. From the
  • scillation period the depth can be
  • deduced. Different facets of

nanocavities induce different

  • scillation phase and period. From

this the shape and size of the nanocavity can be determined.

Studied system

Shape: different spots – different facets

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SLIDE 5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.80 0.85 0.90 0.95 1.00 1.05 1.10 1.15 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.95 1.00 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.95 1.00 1.05 1.10 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.95 1.00

Ultimate depth detection: nanocavities in Cu(110) – 80 nm

20 x 20 nm2

39.0 nm 52.9 nm 62.8 nm 80.0 nm 4.5 nm 12.5 nm 22.4 nm 32.5 nm

Ar-filled nanocavities in Cu(110)

Depth

40 x 40 nm

10 nm of Cu

dI/dV @ 900mV

  • 0.5
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 0.9 1.0 1.1 dI/dV/dI0/dV (a.u.) Bias voltage (V)

Co nanoclusters in Cu(001)

dI/dV @ 400mV

6 nm of Cu

30 x 30 nm

Fe nanoclusters in Cu(001)

Nanocavities vs Nanoclusters Applications

For ITER Degradation of W or Mo walls by implantation and growth of H2 and He-filled nanocavities: the growth

  • f nanicavities can be visualizeed

For micro- nanolithography Ar, Ne, He implantation defects in conducting layers (Al, Cu, Au, Ag, …) during plasma processing

  • r magnetron sputtering deposition

For clean material technology Study near-surface defects and interfaces directly or by decoration them with He or H nanocavities For solar cells and nanophotonics Ge nanoclusters and nanovoids in fused silica Metallic clusters provide less effective scattering. Nevertheless we can see Co and Fe nanoclusters up to 25 nm deep.

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20 x 20 nm

Application for ITER: Shape of nanocavity in W

Possible Wulf constructions

  • R. Kositski, D. Mordehai

/ Acta Materialia 90 (2015) 370–379

Pure tungsten

  • R. Jacobs, D. Morgan, and J. Booske

ArXiv 1712.05308.pdf

Tungsten with impurities Our experiments

Estimated size ~15 nm

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  • 0,2

0,0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1,0 1,2 0,6 0,7 0,8 0,9 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4

(dI/dV)/dIo/dV) Bias voltage, V G 0.22mV

~10 nm