Conductance step for a single-atom contact in the scanning tunneling microscope: Noble and transition metals

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (23) ◽  
pp. 16086-16090 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Sirvent ◽  
J. G. Rodrigo ◽  
S. Vieira ◽  
L. Jurczyszyn ◽  
N. Mingo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metals ◽  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscope

Shot noise from single atom contacts in a scanning tunneling microscope

2016 ◽  
Vol 643 ◽  
pp. 10-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Burtzlaff ◽  
Natalia L. Schneider ◽  
Alexander Weismann ◽  
Richard Berndt
Keyword(s):  
Shot Noise ◽  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscope

scholarly journals The Formation of Self-Assembled Nanowire Arrays on Ge(001): a DFT Study of Pt Induced Nanowire Arrays

2009 ◽  
Vol 1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Eric Paul Vanpoucke ◽  
Geert Brocks
Keyword(s):  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Nanowire Arrays ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Checkerboard Pattern ◽  
High Temperature Annealing ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Stm Images

AbstractNanowire (NW) arrays form spontaneously after high temperature annealing of a sub monolayer deposition of Pt on a Ge(001) surface. These NWs are a single atom wide, with a length limited only by the underlying beta-terrace to which they are uniquely connected. Using ab-initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations we study possible geometries of the NWs and substrate. Direct comparison to experiment is made via calculated scanning tunneling microscope (STM) images. Based on these images, geometries for the beta-terrace and the NWs are identified, and a formation path for the nanowires as function of increasing local Pt density is presented. We show the beta-terrace to be a dimer row surface reconstruction with a checkerboard pattern of Ge-Ge and Pt-Ge dimers. Most remarkably, comparison of calculated to experimental STM images shows the NWs to consist of germanium atoms embedded in the Pt-lined troughs of the underlying surface, contrary to what was assumed previously in experiments.

Control of spin-polarized current in a scanning tunneling microscope by single-atom transfer

2010 ◽  
Vol 96 (13) ◽  
pp. 132505 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ziegler ◽  
N. Ruppelt ◽  
N. Néel ◽  
J. Kröger ◽  
R. Berndt
Keyword(s):  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Atom Transfer ◽  
Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Spin Polarized

scholarly journals How Much Force Does it Take to Move an Atom on a Surface?

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Force Microscope ◽  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Atomic Force

It was demonstrated 18 years ago that atoms could be manipulated, one at a time, on a surface. Yet only recently has the force required to move an atom been determined. Markus Ternes, Christopher Lutz, Cyrus Hirjibehedin, Franz Giessibl, and Andreas Heinrich, in a technical tour de force, have engineered a microscope that incorporates features of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) to accurately quantitate the lateral and vertical forces needed to move a single atom on a surface.

A Boy and His Atom

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
World Record ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Tunneling Microscope

There are certainly “big movies” such as Gone with the Wind and “small movies” such as Beasts of the Southern Wild, but Andreas Heinrich, Chris Lutz, Susanne Baumann, and Ileana Rau at IBM literally have set a new Guinness World Record™ for the smallest movie ever made. Heinrich et al. used a remotely operated two-ton scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate carbon monoxide molecules into a pattern, then capture the image (at a magnification of about 100,000,000×!), then move a few atoms and capture another image, and so on. This was done at 268 degrees below zero Celsius. Then approximately 250 images were assembled into a stop-action movie accompanied by cute music that lasts a little over a minute. The “boy” appears to be composed of 88 individual atoms. He bounces a “ball” (a single atom) off a wall in a minuscule game of “handatom,” which is reminiscent of the early video game “Pong.” Then he bounces on a tiny trampoline. The movie concludes with a tasteful mention of IBM.

scholarly journals Detection of Single Atom Extraction and Deposition Events during Nanolithographic Processing of Silicon with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois GREY ◽  
DE Huan HUANG ◽  
Ataru KOBAYASHI ◽  
Eric J. SNYDER ◽  
Hironaga UCHIDA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scanning Tunneling Microscope ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscope
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