Low-temperature scanning tunneling

Bellec A, Riedel D, Dujardin G (2008) Dihydride dimer structures on the Si(100) H surface studied by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Phys Rev B 78 165302... 

Katano, S., Herceg, E., Trenary, M., Kim, Y. and Kawai, M. (2006) Single molecule observations of the adsorption sites of methyl isocyanide on Pt(lll) by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. E, 110, 20344-9. 

For example, Wakayama and coworkers discovered the formation of two oppositely orientated domains of 5,10,15,20- lclrakis(3,5-di-ferf-bulylphcnyl)-porphine deposited onto a Cu surface using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy [124]. It was demonstrated that the twin domains were produced by a pair of chiral conformations induced by a combination of symmetrical tilting and twisting rotation of the phenyl rings with respect to... 

Messerli, S., Schintke, S., Morgenstern, K., Sanchez, A., Heiz, U., and Schneider, W.-D., Imaging size-selected silicon clusters with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Surf. Sci. 465,331 (2000). 

Eigler, D.M. et al.. Imaging Xe with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1189-1192, 1991. 

Using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope, chemists at Tufts University successfully assembled and operated an electric motor consisting of a single molecule. 

The combined approach of low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy and DFT computations (LDA and HSE periodic computations) was used to study hexadecafluoro-phthalocyanine CuFjgPc and epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC(0001) (Table 11.9) [154]. Since a dispersion-stabilized system was investigated, computational quantum chemistry methods that properly treat vdW-interactions were desired for such a study. These may correct the computed adsorption- and diffusion-related energetic characteristics. 

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes (LT-STMs) are designed in a way that the entire STM and the sample are kept at a low temperature inside a cryostat [8, 9]. Such instruments use liquid helium (f He) as the cooling medium, allowing for operation at temperatures down to 4 K. Even ultralow temperatures below 1 K can be achieved with a mixture of He and He and specially designed mixing cryostats [10, 11]. 

Meyer, G., Bartels, L., Zophel, S., and Rieder, K.H. (1999) Lateral manipulation of adatoms and native substrate atoms with the low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Appl. Phys. A, 68, 125-129. 

Direct Observation and Control of Single-Molecule Tautomerization by Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy... 

Tan S, Ji Y, Zhao Y et al (2011) Molecular oxygen adsorption behaviors on the rutile TiO2(110)-l X 1 surface an in situ study with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. J Am Chem Soc 133 2002-2009... 

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