Conformational changes of single molecules induced by scanning tunneling microscopy manipulation: a route to molecular switching

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 672-675

  Moresco, Francesca ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a,b   Rieder, Karl Heinz ^a   Tang, Hao ^c   Gourdon, André ^c   Joachim, Christian ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PORPHYRINS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ELASTIC SCATTERING QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SWITCHING;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 0035137061     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.672     Document Type: Article

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