Self-assembly and ordering of C60 on the WO2/W(110) surface

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-203

  Krasnikov, Sergey A ^a   Bozhko, Sergey I ^a,b   Radican, Kevin ^a   Lübben, Olaf ^a   Murphy, Barry E ^a   Vadapoo, Sundar Raja ^a   Wu, Han Chun ^a   Abid, Mohamed ^a,c   Semenov, Valery N ^b   Shvets, Igor V ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Fullerenes; low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy; scanning tunnelling spectroscopy; self assembly; tungsten oxide; W(110)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551582893     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0070-0     Document Type: Article

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