Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies of individual lander molecules anchored on a copper oxide nanotemplate

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 16118-16122

  Naitoh, Y ^a,b   Rosei, F ^a,c   Gourdon, A ^d   Loegsgaard E ^a   Stensgaard, I ^a   Joachim, C ^d   Besenbacher, F ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; OXYGEN; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

CU(110); CURRENT IMAGE TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPIES; ELECTRONIC FEATURES; ELECTRONIC GAPS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; LANDER MOLECULES; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOTEMPLATE; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPIES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPIES;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 55149119184     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp8053197     Document Type: Article

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