Molecules on insulating films: Scanning-tunneling microscopy imaging of individual molecular orbitals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Repp, Jascha ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Stojković, Sladjana M ^b   Gourdon, André ^b   Joachim, Christian ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC SCATTERING; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ADSORPTION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; INSULATING MATERIALS; IONIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

EID: 18144386607     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.026803     Document Type: Article

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