Emergent multistability in assembled nanostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2486-2489

  Yang, Jianshu ^a   Erwin, Steven C ^b   Kanisawa, Kiyoshi ^c   Nacci, Christophe ^a   Foölsch, Stefan ^a  

^a PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

density functional theory; indium arsenide; manipulation of single atoms; Scanning tunneling microscopy; semiconductor surfaces; STM

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; CHARGE STATE; CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; LATTICE GAS MODEL; MANIPULATION OF SINGLE ATOMS; MULTISTABILITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; SEMICONDUCTOR CRYSTALS; STM; SURFACE ATOMS; SURFACE LAYERS;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; ATOMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INDIUM ARSENIDE; NANOSTRUCTURES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79958853208     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2009444     Document Type: Article

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