Force and conductance during contact formation to a C 60 molecule

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hauptmann, Nadine ^a   Mohn, Fabian ^b   Gross, Leo ^b   Meyer, Gerhard ^b   Frederiksen, Thomas ^c   Berndt, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); ATTRACTIVE FORCE; CONTACT CONDUCTANCE; CONTACT FORMATION; CONTACT GEOMETRY; SUB-MOLECULAR RESOLUTION;

PHYSICS; RESEARCH;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84864376616     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073032     Document Type: Article

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