Detecting element specific electrons from a single cobalt nanocluster with synchrotron x-ray scanning tunneling microscopy

Kersell, Heath; Shirato, Nozomi; Cummings, Marvin; Chang, Hao; Miller, Dean; Rosenmann, Daniel; Hla, Saw -Wai; Rose, Volker

doi:10.1063/1.4990818

Title: Detecting element specific electrons from a single cobalt nanocluster with synchrotron x-ray scanning tunneling microscopy

Journal Article · Tue Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990818· OSTI ID:1416532

Kersell, Heath ^[1]; Shirato, Nozomi ^[2]; Cummings, Marvin ^[2]; Chang, Hao ^[1]; Miller, Dean ^[2]; Rosenmann, Daniel ^[2]; Hla, Saw -Wai ^[1]; Rose, Volker ^[2]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Here, we use a nanofabricated scanning tunneling microscope tip as a detector to investigate local X-ray induced tunneling and electron emission from a single cobalt nanocluster on a Au(111) surface. The tip-detector is positioned a few angstroms above the nanocluster, and ramping the incident X-ray energy across the Co photoabsorption K-edge enables the detection of element specific electrons. Atomic-scale spatial dependent changes in the X-ray absorption cross section are directly measured by taking the X-ray induced current as a function of X-ray energy. From the measured sample and tip currents, element specific X-ray induced current components can be separated and thereby the corresponding yields for the X-ray induced processes of the single cobalt nanocluster can be determined. The detection of element specific synchrotron X-ray induced electrons of a single nanocluster opens a new avenue for materials characterization on a one particle at-a-time basis.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; FG02-02ER46012; SC70705

OSTI ID:: 1416532

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1378395

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 10; ISSN 0003-6951

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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