Imaging the dynamics of individually adsorbed molecules

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-227

  Schaffert, Johannes ^a   Cottin, Maren C ^a   Sonntag, Andreas ^a   Karacuban, Hatice ^a   Bobisch, Christian A ^a   Lorente, Nicolás ^b   Gauyacq, Jean Pierre ^c   Möller, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED MOLECULES; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; METASTABLE POSITIONS; MOTION OF PARTICLES; RANDOM TELEGRAPH NOISE; REAL-TIME CHARACTERIZATIONS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84875425783     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3527     Document Type: Article

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