Turning on and off the rotational oscillation of a single porphine molecule by molecular charge state

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4132-4136

  Yan, Shichao ^a   Ding, Zijing ^a   Xie, Nan ^a,b   Gong, Huiqi ^a   Sun, Qian ^b   Guo, Yang ^a   Shan, Xinyan ^a   Meng, Sheng ^a   Lu, Xinghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Magnesium porphine; Molecular charge state; NaCl bilayer; Rotational oscillation; Scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; BI-LAYER; CHARGE STATE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CHARGE; MOLECULAR MOTIONS; MOLECULAR ROTORS; PORPHINE; ROTATION DYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL OSCILLATION; SINGLE ELECTRON; STATE-CONTROL; SWITCHING RATES; ULTRA-THIN;

MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84864693855     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301099m     Document Type: Article

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