Noncontact to contact tunneling microscopy in self-assembled monolayers of alkylthiols on gold

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Park, Jeong Young ^a   Qi, Yabing ^a   Ratera, Imma ^a,b   Salmeron, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; EXCAVATION; GOLD; LANDFORMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARAFFINS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

ALKYL-THIOLS; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); APPLIED LOADS; CONSTANT-CURRENT MODES; DECAY CONSTANTS; HEXADECANE (HD); MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR TILTING; NONCONTACT (NC); REPULSIVE FORCES; SAMPLE BIAS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER (SAMS); SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS (SAMS); SET POINTS; STEPWISE INCREASE; TUNNELING CURRENTS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 47249142065     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2938085     Document Type: Article

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