Electrons in the looking glass

Eric Heller ()
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Eric Heller: Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6769, 489-491

Abstract: The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) allows us to ‘see’ atoms directly. Seven years ago STM pictures of a ‘quantum corral’ — a circle of iron atoms on a copper surface — revealed what happens when electron waves are confined within a cavity. The latest STM images are of an elliptical corral, in which the signature of an atom at one focus is clearly sensed at the other ‘empty’ focus.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35000681

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