Room-temperature repositioning of individual C60 molecules at Cu steps: Operation of a molecular counting device

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3016-3018

  Cuberes, M T ^a   Schlittler, R R ^a   Gimzewski, J K ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000730306     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.116824     Document Type: Article

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