Trapping single polar molecules in SiC nanomesh via out-of-plane dipoles

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2774-2778

  Huang, Han ^a,b   Wong, Swee Liang ^a,c   Sun, Jiatao ^a   Chen, Wei ^a,b,c   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

chloroaluminum phthalocyanine; epitaxial graphene; scanning tunneling microscopy; SiC nanomesh; surface dipole

Indexed keywords

CHLOROALUMINUM PHTHALOCYANINE; DIPOLE ARRAYS; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; NANOMESH; OUT-OF-PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE COMPONENTS; POLAR MOLECULES; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SURFACE DIPOLE;

GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84859121208     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300258b     Document Type: Article

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