Controlled switching within an organic molecule deliberately pinned to a semiconductor surface

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4190-4195

  Nacci, Christophe ^a,c   Erwin, Steven C ^b   Kanisawa, Kiyoshi ^d   Fölsch, Stefan ^a  

^a PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

^d FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Indium arsenide; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Semiconductor surfaces; STM manipulation of single molecules

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; CONJUGATED MOLECULES; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; HYDROGEN-TRANSFER REACTIONS; II-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PRECISE MANIPULATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; SINGLE MOLECULE; SWITCHING MECHANISM; SWITCHING PROCESS; TUNNEL CURRENTS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HYDROGEN; INDIUM ARSENIDE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84864693839     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300690n     Document Type: Article

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