Controlled room-temperature positioning of individual molecules: Molecular flexure and motion

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5246, 1996, Pages 181-184

  Jung, T A ^a   Schlittler, R R ^a   Gimzewski, J K ^a   Tang, H ^b   Joachim, C ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0001536394     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5246.181     Document Type: Article

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23. We thank P. Guéret and H. Rohrer for enlightening and helpful discussions, M. E. Weiland for valuable conversations, and T. Takami for providing the molecules used in this study. We gratefully acknowledge partial support by the Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft of Switzerland through the European Union ESPRIT basic research project PRONANO (8523). C.J. and H.T. thank the Région Midi-Pyrénée and the CNRS Groupement de Recherche NanoMips (1145) for financial support during this work.