Inducing desorption of organic molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope: theory and experiments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 5372-5375

  Alavi, Saman ^a   Rousseau, Roger ^a   Patitsas, S N ^a   Lopinski, Gregory P ^a   Wolkow, Robert A ^a   Seideman, Tamar ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DESORPTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON; TEMPERATURE;

QUANTUM MECHANICAL WAVE PACKET DYNAMICS; RESONANCE MEDIATED ELECTRON TUNNELING; TRANSIENT IONIZATION;

BENZENE;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROMANIPULATION; PROCEDURES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0034506795     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5372     Document Type: Article

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