Pith Number

pith:45HIPXHU

pith:2015:45HIPXHUCRNFW5MS3TTW4M3KWR

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Etch-stop method for reliably fabricating sharp yet mechanically stable scanning tunneling microscope tips

G. Basnet, J.K. Schoelz, M.L. Ackerman, P.M. Thibado, P. Xu, S.D. Barber

arxiv:1501.05199 v1 · 2015-01-21 · cond-mat.mes-hall

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\pithnumber{45HIPXHUCRNFW5MS3TTW4M3KWR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:28:55.754135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e74e87dcf4145a5b7592dce76e336ab4603be3f0c9aefa41907abdd510631b14

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.05199 · arxiv_version: 1501.05199v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.05199 · pith_short_12: 45HIPXHUCRNF · pith_short_16: 45HIPXHUCRNFW5MS · pith_short_8: 45HIPXHU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45HIPXHUCRNFW5MS3TTW4M3KWR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e74e87dcf4145a5b7592dce76e336ab4603be3f0c9aefa41907abdd510631b14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-21T15:44:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b504e31af52bd6d0662215ca0dbe52c307503cf8e5eb6276a2605bd39a90a8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.05199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}