Imaging bond formation between a gold atom and pentacene on an insulating surface

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5777, 2006, Pages 1196-1199

  Repp, Jascha ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Paavilainen, Sami ^b   Olsson, Fredrik E ^c   Persson, Mats ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; GOLD; INSULATING MATERIALS; ISOMERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS;

COVALENT BONDS; ENERGETIC SHIFTS; IMAGING BOND FORMATION; STRUCTURAL ISOMERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; GOLD; HYDROCARBON; PENTACENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL BONDING; GOLD; IMAGING METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPLEX FORMATION; COVALENT BOND; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; FILM; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISOMER; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33744496274     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126073     Document Type: Article

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22. We thank R. Allenspach and S. Billeter for fruitful discussions. We acknowledge partial funding by the Academy of Finland; the Swedish Research Council (V.R.); the European Union projects CHIC, AMMIST, NANOSPECTRA, and NANOMAN; and allocation by computer resources by the Swedish National Allocations Committee.