Mode-specific strategy for controlling a single-molecule reaction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1819, 2004, Pages 1227-1238

  Lorente, Nicolás ^a   Pascual, Jose Ignacio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inelastic tunnelling; Mode selectivity; Scanning tunnelling microscope (STM); Single molecule chemistry; Vibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942717021     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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