Influence of the local adsorption environment on the intramolecular contrast of organic molecules in noncontact atomic force microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Such, Bartosz ^a   Weiner, Domenique ^b   Schirmeisen, André ^b   Fuchs, Harald ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POINT CONTACTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; INTRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; METALLIC SUBSTRATES; ORGANIC MOLECULES;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

EID: 33748263379     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2345235     Document Type: Article

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