Effects of tip structure on the generation of metal clusters by an STM tip: A way to control the orientation of nanocrystallites?

Nanotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 974-980

  Mariscal, Marcelo ^a   Narambuena, Claudio F ^a   Del Pópolo, Mario G ^b   Leiva, Ezequiel P M ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICOQUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

ATOMIC DYNAMIC (AD) SIMULATIONS; NANOCRYSTALLITES; NANOSTRUCTURING; TIP STRUCTURE;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 18744362144     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/16/6/059     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Kolb D M, Ullmann R and Will T 1997 Science 275 1097-9
2. Del Pópolo M G, Leiva E P M and Schmickler W 2001 Angew. Chem. 113 4807-9
3. Del Pópolo M G, Leiva E P M, Kleine H, Meier J, Stimming U, Mariscal M and Schmickler W 2003 Electrochim. Acta 48 1287-94
4. Del Pópolo M G, Leiva E P M, Kleine H, Meier J, Stimming U, Mariscal M and Schmickler W 2002 Appl. Phys. Lett. 81 2635-7
5. Del Pópolo M G, Leiva E P M, Mariscal M and Schmickler W 2003 Nanotechnology 14 1009-13
6. Kolb D M, Ullmann R and Ziegler J C 1998 Electrochim. Acta 43 2751-60
7. Landman U and Luedtke W D 1993 Consequences of tip-sample interactions Scanning Tunneling Microscopy vol 3 ed R Wiesendanger and H J Güntherodt (Berlin: Springer)
8. Landman U, Luedtke W D, Burnham N A and Colton R J 1990 Science 248 454-61
9. Foiles S M, Baskes M I and Daw M S 1986 Phys. Rev. B 33 7983-91
10. Thiel P A and Madey T E 1987 Surf. Sci. Rep. 7 211-385
11. Feibelman P J 2001 Phys. Rev. B 64 1254031-6
12. Shield T W 1996 Acta Metall. 44 1547-61
13. Simmons G and Wang H 1971 Single Crystal Elastic Constants and Calculated Aggregate Properties: A Handbook (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
14. Yong C W, Smith W and Kendall K 2003 Nanotechnology 14 829-39
15. Landman U, Luedtke W D and Gao U 1996 Langmuir 12 4514-28