Subatomic features

Much progress has been made in understanding atomistic properties of surfaces by noncontact AFM [216]. In noncontact mode true atomic resolution was first obtained on Si(l 11)7 x 7 [217], on lnP(l 10) [218], and on NaCl [219]. Meanwhile, even subatomic features are observable by noncontact AFM [220]. In contact mode, atomic resolution is achievable but unlike with STM and noncontact AFM it is inconclusive if this resolution is real. True atomic resolution can be recognized by the correct imaging of lattice defects, for example, vacancies as depressions. Otherwise, apparent atomic resolution can arise from the corrugations of the tip s surface and the sample s surface being in phase. The image is then a superposition of many patches of the surface and vacancies cannot be seen. 

F. J. Giessibl, S. Hembacher, H. Bielefeldt, and J. Mannhart, Subatomic features on tlie silicon (lllJ-(7x7J surface observed by atomic force microscopy, Science. 289,422 (2000J. 

Quantum mechanics provides a collect description of phenomena on the atomic or subatomic scale, where the ideas of classical mechanics are not generally applicable. As we describe nuclear phenomena, we will use many results and concepts from quantum mechanics. Although it is our goal not to have the reader, in general, perform detailed quantum mechanical calculation, it is important that the reader understand the basis for many of the descriptive statements made in the text. Therefore, we present, in this Appendix, a brief summary of the essential features of quantum mechanics that we shall use. For more detailed discussion of these features, we refer the reader to the references at the end of this Appendix. 

Atoms themselves are made up of even smaller particles. These subatomic particles are protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons cluster together to form the central core, or nucleus, of an atom. Fast-moving electrons occupy the space that surrounds the nucleus of the atom. As their names imply, subatomic particles are associated with electrical charges. Table 2.1 and Figure 2.2 summarize the general features and properties of an atom and its three subatomic particles. 

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Pcs and, more precisely, CuPcs were among the first molecules to be observed individually by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in 1987. Two years later, STM images under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) of isolated vapor-deposited CuPc molecules on Cu(lOO) substrate exhibited subatomic-scale features that agree well with molecular-orbital calculations (Figure 43). It was the first time that... 

There are two senses to this abstraction. First, the element is abstract because it is the result of an active effort to detach significant relevant features from the particular local context in which the elements exhibit their chemical action. No two reactions are identical in every detail, but the salient features of a series of similar reactions can be abstracted by the senses of experienced chemists with or without the aid of their instruments. But there is a second and less concrete form of abstraction involved in the construction of the explanatory structure of the periodic system. The idea that macroscopic chemical properties depend on an invisible causal factor (subatomic structure whether it is indicated by atomic number or atomic weight) that can be inferred based on a theoretical construction represents another significant form of abstraction. In this respect, the chemical element is close to a mathematical abstraction. Thus, it becomes an instrument that allows one to construct a series that is assumed to lie behind and to be more fundamental than all individual, local, observable chemical changes. This abstraction allows the chemist to describe the order behind the apparently chaotic multiplicity of the phenomenal world. 

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