Fluorescence and phosphorescence from individual C60 molecules excited by local electron tunneling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Ćavar, Elizabeta ^a   Blüm, Marie Christine ^a   Pivetta, Marina ^a   Patthey, François ^a   Chergui, Majed ^a   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C60 MOLECULE; CHEMICAL RECOGNITION; DOUBLE BARRIER SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE JUNCTION; LOCALIZED CURRENT;

CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 28844437518     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.196102     Document Type: Article

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