title: Time-Resolved Imaging of Negative Differential Resistance on the Atomic Scale.
abstract: Negative differential resistance remains an attractive but elusive functionality, so far only finding niche applications. Atom scale entities have shown promising properties, but the viability of device fabrication requires a fuller understanding of electron dynamics than has been possible to date. Using an all-electronic time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy technique and a Green's function transport model, we study an isolated dangling bond on a hydrogen terminated silicon surface. A robust negative differential resistance feature is identified as a many body phenomenon related to occupation dependent electron capture by a single atomic level. We measure all the time constants involved in this process and present atomically resolved, nanosecond time scale images to simultaneously capture the spatial and temporal variation of the observed feature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Mohammad
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authors.lastname: Rashidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taucer
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koleini
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Hatem
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authors.lastname: Labidi
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Jason L
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authors.lastname: Pitters
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada.
authors.forename: Joseph
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authors.lastname: Maciejko
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J1, Canada.|National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.
authors.forename: Robert A
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authors.lastname: Wolkow