Adsorbate-substrate vibrational modes of benzene on Ag(110) resolved with scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1050-1053

  Pascual, J I ^a   Jackiw, J J ^a,b   Song, Z ^a   Weiss, P S ^b   Conrad, H ^a   Rust, H P ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES;

ENERGY ADSORBATE; INELASTIC SIGNAL;

BENZENE;

EID: 17544386782     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1050     Document Type: Article

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