Adsorption geometry determination of single molecules by atomic force microscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Schuler, Bruno ^a   Liu, Wei ^b   Tkatchenko, Alexandre ^b   Moll, Nikolaj ^a   Meyer, Gerhard ^a   Mistry, Anish ^c   Fox, David ^c   Gross, Leo ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION GEOMETRIES; ATOMIC RESOLUTION; CONJUGATED MOLECULES; FUNCTIONALIZED; MOLECULAR PLANES; NONCONTACT ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE MOLECULE; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84884248815     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.106103     Document Type: Article

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