Toggling bistable atoms via mechanical switching of bond angle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Sweetman, Adam ^a   Jarvis, Sam ^a   Danza, Rosanna ^a   Bamidele, Joseph ^b   Gangopadhyay, Subhashis ^a   Shaw, Gordon A ^c   Kantorovich, Lev ^b   Moriarty, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; BISTABLES; BOND ANGLE; CHEMICAL FORCES; DYNAMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; FABRICATION STRATEGIES; IN-PLANE; MECHANICAL MANIPULATION; MECHANICAL SWITCHING; NONLOCAL; SI(100) SURFACE; TOGGLE SWITCH;

DIMERS;

ATOMS;

EID: 79960641759     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.136101     Document Type: Article

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