Fig. 5: Different morphologies of the resulting nanogap electrodes under the four different environments tested.
From: Sub-10 nm nanogap fabrication on suspended glassy carbon nanofibers

SEM images showing the smooth and rough GCNF surfaces broken under a dry-air at atmospheric pressure, b CO2 at atmospheric pressure, c high vacuum in a chamber that was previously purged with dry-air, and d high vacuum in a chamber that was purged with CO2.