Controlling the charge state of individual gold adatoms

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5683, 2004, Pages 493-495

  Repp, Jascha ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Olsson, Fredrik E ^b   Persson, Mats ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHARGE CARRIERS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; METALLIC FILMS; POLARIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

ADATOMS; CHARGE STATE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM;

METAL ANALYSIS;

COPPER; GOLD; METAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GOLD;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; FILM; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARGE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 3242752628     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099557     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank R. Allenspach for valuable comments and K.-H. Rieder for support. We acknowledge partial funding by the European Union projects "AMMIST" and "CHIC," the Swedish Research Council (VR), and the Swedish Strategic Foundation (SSF) through the materials consortium ATOMICS. Allocation of computer resources through the Swedish National Allocation Committee (SNAC) is also gratefully acknowledged.