Imaging and tuning molecular levels at the surface of a gated graphene device

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5395-5401

  Riss, Alexander ^a,f   Wickenburg, Sebastian ^a,b   Tan, Liang Z ^a,b   Tsai, Hsin Zon ^a   Kim, Youngkyou ^a   Lu, Jiong ^a,e   Bradley, Aaron J ^a   Ugeda, Miguel M ^a   Meaker, Kacey L ^a   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Taniguchi, Takashi ^c   Zettl, Alex ^a,b   Fischer, Felix R ^b,d   Louie, Steven G ^a,b   Crommie, Michael F ^a,b,d  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

density functional theory; graphene; GW self energy; organic molecules; scanning tunneling microscopy; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; vibronic levels

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STATES; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACK-GATE VOLTAGES; BENZENE MOLECULES; MOLECULAR ADSORBATE; ORGANIC MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ENERGY; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; VIBRONIC LEVELS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84903487699     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501459v     Document Type: Article

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