With the height of the tip fixed, the electron tunneling current is then measured as a function of electron energy by varying the voltage between the tip and the sample ( the tip to sample voltage sets the electron energy ).
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"' Reona Esaki "'( _ l ] �s�eHY " Esaki Reona ", born March 12, 1925 ), also known as "'Leo Esaki "', is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling.
