T. Kizuka et al., CROSS-SECTIONAL TIME-RESOLVED HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY OF ATOMIC-SCALE CONTACT AND NONCONTACT-TYPE SCANNINGS ON GOLD SURFACES, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 55(12), 1997, pp. 7398-7401
Atomic-scale contact and noncontact scannings on gold surfaces were pe
rformed by gold tips in time-resolved high-resolution transmission ele
ctron microscopy (HRTEM) using a piezodriven specimen holder. The stru
ctural variations of atomic arrangements in the scanning process were
observed in situ with a time resolution of 1/60 s. Possibility of comb
ination-type microscopy of HRTEM and scanning-probe microscopy was sho
wn. Mechanical processing at one atomic-layer scale was demonstrated.