Origin of high-resolution IETS-STM images of organic molecules with functionalized tips

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Hapala, Prokop ^a   Temirov, Ruslan ^b,c   Tautz, F Stefan ^b,c   Jelínek, Pavel ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c Julich Aachen Research Alliance JARA Fundamentals of Future Information Technology   (Germany)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON MONOXIDE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULES;

HARTREE POTENTIAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL MODEL; NANOSCALE SENSORS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; TRANSLATION MODES; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84919360036     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.226101     Document Type: Article

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