Assembling and disassembling Ag clusters on Si(111)-(7×7) by vertical atomic manipulation

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7608-7616

  Ming, Fangfei ^a   Wang, Kedong ^a   Pan, Shuan ^a   Liu, Jiepeng ^a   Zhang, Xieqiu ^a   Yang, Jinlong ^b   Xiao, Xudong ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

metal on semiconductor; nanocluster; scanning tunneling microscopy; Si(111) (7 7); vertical manipulation

Indexed keywords

AG ATOMS; AG CLUSTERS; ATOMIC MANIPULATION; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CRITICAL INFORMATION; GROWTH PROCESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES; NANO-DEVICES; PRECISE CONTROL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SI (1 1 1); VERTICAL MANIPULATION;

ATOMS; NANOCLUSTERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 80053308886     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202636g     Document Type: Article

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