Manipulating localized molecular orbitals by single-atom contacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Weihua ^a   Shi, Xingqiang ^b   Lin, Chensheng ^b   Zhang, Rui Qin ^b   Minot, Christian ^b,c   Van Hove, Michel A ^b   Hong, Yuning ^a   Tang, Ben Zhong ^a   Lin, Nian ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM CONTACTS; CONTACT EFFECT; CU ATOMS; CU(1 1 1); DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ETHYLENE MOLECULES; LOCALIZED MOLECULAR ORBITALS; ORBITALS; TERPYRIDINES;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; ETHYLENE; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ATOMS;

EID: 77957168206     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.126801     Document Type: Article

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