Investigating molecular charge transfer complexes with a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Jackel F ^a,b,c   Perera, U G E ^a   Iancu, V ^a   Braun, K F ^a   Koch, N ^b   Rabe, J P ^b   Hla, S W ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ETHANE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

MOLECULAR DEVICES; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 41549111100     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.126102     Document Type: Article

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