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US 5,619,035 AGranted
System for analyzing surfaces of samples
AssigneesBiotechnology Research and Development Corporation, The Penn State Research Foundation
InventorsPaul S. Weiss, Stephan J. Stranick
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Abstract
A system for transporting in a vacuum chamber sample holders and samples between a holder tray and a location for use with a surface analytical instrument is disclosed. Also provided is a system including a microwave coaxial cable connecting the tip terminal of a scanning tunneling microscope to a microwave signal source and a system for clamping a heater to a sample holder in order to heat the sample.
Claims7
An apparatus for analyzing surfaces of samples, comprising:
- an AC scanning tunneling microscope having a tip terminal for supplying an AC signal to a surface of a sample;
- at least one microwave signal source and at least one microwave analyzer;
- a microwave coaxial cable connecting the tip terminal to the source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.