Visualization and manipulation of individual dopant states in single conjugated oligomers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3404-3410

  Wang, Shiyong ^a   Wang, Weihua ^a   Lin, Nian ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

conjugated oligomer; dopant states; scanning tunneling microscopy; single molecule manipulation

Indexed keywords

CHARGE/DISCHARGE; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; DOPANT STATE; DOPING MECHANISM; NONLINEAR EXCITATION; REAL-SPACE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SPATIAL EXTENSION; SUBNANOMETER RESOLUTION;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 84860374316     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300428k     Document Type: Article

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