Direct measurement of the attractive interaction forces on F0 color centers on MgO(001) by dynamic force microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2510-2514

  König, Thomas ^a   Simon, Georg H ^a   Martinez, Umberto ^b   Giordano, Livia ^b   Pacchioni, Gianfranco ^b   Heyde, Markus ^a   Freund, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adsorption sites; Atomic force microscopy; Color centers; Defect states; Density functional theory; Dynamic force microscopy; Magnesium oxide film; Scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION SITE; ADSORPTION SITES; DEFECT STATES DENSITY; DYNAMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNESIUM OXIDES;

ADSORBATES; ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; COLOR; COLOR CENTERS; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; ION EXCHANGE; MAGNESIUM; OXIDE FILMS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 77952933123     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100443n     Document Type: Article

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