Direct imaging of molecular orbitals of metal phthalocyanines on metal surfaces with an O2-functionalized tip of a scanning tunneling microscope

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 523-530

  Cheng, Zhihai ^a   Du, Shixuan ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Gao, Li ^a   Deng, Zhitao ^a   Jiang, Nan ^a   Guo, Haiming ^a   Tang, Hao ^b   Gao, H J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Center for Material Elaboration and Structural Studies   (France)

Author keywords

density functional theory calculation; functionalized STM tip; High resolution scanning tunneling microscope (STM) imaging; metal phthalocyanines; molecular orbital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957551355     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0108-y     Document Type: Article

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