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Enhancing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy With Automation And Machine Learning, Darian Smalley
Enhancing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy With Automation And Machine Learning, Darian Smalley
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024
The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is one of the most advanced surface science tools capable of atomic resolution imaging and atomic manipulation. Unfortunately, STM has many time-consuming bottlenecks, like probe conditioning, tip instability, and noise artificing, which causes the technique to have low experimental throughput. This dissertation describes my efforts to address these challenges through automation and machine learning. It consists of two main sections each describing four projects for a total of eight studies.
The first section details two studies on nanoscale sample fabrication and two studies on STM tip preparation. The first two studies describe the fabrication of …