Result of the month

ROM 2013-6 
Observing Atomic Collapse Resonances in Artificial Nuclei on Graphene.
Author:Yang Wang1,2 / Dillon Wong1,2, / Andrey V. Shytov3, / Victor W. Brar1,2,/ Sangkook Choi1, /Qiong Wu1,2, / Hsin-Zon Tsai1, / William Regan1,2, / Alex Zettl1,2, / Roland K. Kawakami5, / Steven G. Louie1,2, / Leonid S. Levitov4, / Michael F. Crommie1,2,†
Institute:1 Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. / 2 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. / 3 School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK. / 4 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. / 5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2013-5 
Precise Orientation of a Single C60 Molecule on the Tip of a Scanning Probe Microscope.
Author:C. Chiutu,(1) A. M. Sweetman,(1) A. J. Lakin,(1) A. Stannard,(1) S. Jarvis,(1) L. Kantorovich,(2) J. L. Dunn,(1) and P. Moriarty(1)
Institute:(1) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom (2) Department of Physics, King’s College London, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
Publication:PRL 108, 268302 (2012)
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2013-4 
Quantitative Atomic Resoluion Force Imaging on Epitaxial Graphene with Reactive and Nonreactive AFM Probes
Author:Peter Liljeroth,(3) peter.liljeroth@aalto.fi Daniël Vanmaekelbergh,(1) d.vanmaekelbergh@uu.nl
Institute:(1) Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands (2) Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany (3) Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, P.O. Box 15100, 00076 Aalto, Finland
Publication:M.P. Boneschanscher, J. van der Lit, Z. Sun, I. Swart, P. Liljeroth and D. Vanmaekelbergh, Quantitative Atomic Resolution Force Imaging on Epitaxial Graphene with Reactive and Nonreactive AFM Probes, ACS Nano, Article ASAP.
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2013-3 
STM and AFM high resolution intramolecular imaging of a single decastarphene molecule.
Author:Olivier Guillermet (1, 2), Sébastien Gauthier (1), Christian Joachim (1) Paula de Mendoza (3), Thorsten Lauterbach (3), Antonio Echavarren (3)
Institute:(1) CNRS, CEMES (Centre d’Elaboration des Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales), BP 94347, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, F-31055 Toulouse, France (2) Université de Toulouse, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France (3) Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Avenida Països Catalans, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Publication:Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 511, Issues 4-6, 5 August 2011, Pages 482-485
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2013-02 
Periodic variations in the local surface potential of Si(111)-(5x2)-Au
Author:S. Polei et al.
Institute:
Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Germany Corresponding author: 
Ingo Barke, ingo.barke@uni-rostock.de
Publication:Phys. Rev. B 85, 165414 (2012) / http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165414
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2013-1 
Controlled transport through a single molecule.
Author:A. Kumar, R. Heimbuch, B. Poelsema, H. J. W. Zandvliet
Institute:Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Publication:[1] A. Kumar, R. Heimbuch, B. Poelsema, and H. J. W. Zandvliet, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 082201 (2012). [2] R. Heimbuch, H. Wu, A. Kumar, B. Poelsema, P. Schön, G. J. Vancso, and H. J. W. Zandvliet, Phys. Rev. B 86, 075456 (2012).
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-12 
Phosphine molecules pack on the germanium surface

Author:G. Scappucci (1), O. Warschkow (2), G. Capellini (3), W. M. Klesse (1), D. R. McKenzie (2) and M.Y. Simmons (1)
Institute:(1)School of Physics and Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology,University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (2)School of Physics and Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (3)Dipartimento di Fisica ‘‘E. Amaldi,’’ Universita` di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
Publication:Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076101 (2012) / http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.076101
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2012-11 
Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy
Author:J. Welker and F. J. Giessibl
Institute:Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany franz.giessibl@ur.de
Publication:J. Welker, F. J. Giessibl, “Revealing the Angular Symmetry of Chemical Bonds by Atomic Force Microscopy”, Science 336, 444-449 (2012)
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-10 
Modification of heterojunctions by electron injection from a STM tip
Author:Stephan Blankenburg 1), Jinming Cai 1), Pascal Ruffieux 1), Rached Jaafar 1), Daniele Passerone 1), Xinliang Feng 2), Klaus Müllen 2), Roman Fasel 1),3), and Carlo A. Pignedoli 1)
Institute:1) EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland 2) Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55124 Mainz, Germany 3) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Publication:ACS Nano, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/nn203129a • Publication Date (Web): 10 Feb 2012
Instrument: VT SPM, LT STM
ROM 2012-9 
Electronic and geometric structure of the PTCDA/Ag(110) interface probed by angle-resolved photoemission.
Institute:(1) Universität Würzburg, Experimentelle Physik VII and Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems RCCM, 97074 Würzburg, Germany and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT, Gemeinschaftslabor für Nanoanalytik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany (2) Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-6), JARA-FIT, Research Center Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany and NanoESCA beamline, Sincrotrone Trieste, in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy (3) Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH, Limburger Strasse 75, 65232 Taunusstein, Germany
Instrument: NanoESCA
ROM 2012-8 
Cobalt adatoms resting atop a graphene sheet on a SiO2 substrate.
Author:Victor W. Brar 1,2, Regis Decker1,2 Hans-Michael Solowan1, Yang Wang 1, Lorenzo Maserati 1, Kevin T. Chan 1,2, Hoonkyung Lee 1,2, Caglar O. Girit 1,2, Alex Zettl 1,2, Steven G. Louie 1,2, Marvin L. Cohen 1,2 and Michael F. Crommie 1,2
Institute:1) Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA 2) Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
Publication:Nature Physics 7, 43–47 (2011)
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-5 
STM image with atomic resolution of a graphene flake on a SiO2 substrate.
Author:Yuanbo Zhang 1), zhyb@berkeley.edu; Michael F. Crommie 1,2), crommie@berkeley.edu
Institute:1) Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA 2) Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
Publication:Nature Physics 4, 627 - 630 (2008)
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-4 
High resolution real and reciprocal space photoelectron emission microscopy on heterogeneous Graphene/SiC(000-1)
Author:Nicholas BARRETT (1), Konrad WINKLER (2), Burkhard KROEMKER (2), Edward CONRAD (3)
Institute:( 1) IRAMIS, Saclay, France, (2) Omicron NanoTechnology, Germany, (3) GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GE, United States
Instrument: NanoESCA
ROM 2012-3 
A phantom force induced by the tunneling current.
Author:A. J. Weymouth, T. Wutscher, J. Welker, T. Hofmann, and F. J. Giessibl
Institute:Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Publication:A. J. Weymouth, T. Wutscher, J. Welker, T. Hofmann, and F. J. Giessibl, “Phantom force induced by tunneling current: A characterization on Si(111)” Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226801 (2011)
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-2 
Experimental demonstration of a single-molecule electric motor
Author:Heather L. Tierney, Colin J. Murphy, April D. Jewell, Ashleigh E. Baber, Erin V. Iski, Harout Y. Khodaverdian, Allister F. McGuire, Nikolai Klebanov and E. Charles H. Sykes
Institute:Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155-5813, USA E. Charles H. Sykes: charles.sykes@tufts.edu
Publication:Tierney, H.L. et al. Experimental demonstration of a single-molecule electric motor. Nature Nanotechnology 6, 625-629 (2011). www.nature.com/nnano
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2012-1 
High resolution nc-AFM and STM imaging of single molecules.
Author:Alexander Riss (riss@berkeley.edu), Sebastian Wickenburg, Hsin-Zon Tsai, Kacey Meaker, Aaron Bradley, Mike Crommie
Institute:Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, USA
Instrument: LT STM
ROM 2011-12 
High Speed NC AFM Measurement.
Author:Susanne Molitor
Institute:Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH
ROM 2011-11 
Nanometer-Scale Striped Surface Terminations on Fractured SrTiO3 Surfaces
Author:Nathan P. Guisinger, Tiffany S. Santos, Jeffrey R. Guest, Te-Yu Chien, Anand Bhattacharya, John W. Freeland, Matthias Bode
Institute:Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
Publication:ACSNano, Vol. 3 No. 12 Guisinger et. al.
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2011-10 
Imaging XPS on MRS-3 calibration standard
Author:Burkhard Kroemker, Konrad Winkler
Institute:Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH
Instrument: NanoESCA
ROM 2011-9 
Robust and Open Tailored Supramolecular Networks Controlled by the Template Effect of a Silicon Surface (VT SPM)
Author:Bulent Baris, Vincent Luzet, Eric Duverger, Philippe Sonnet, Frank Palmino, and Frederic Cherioux
Institute:Institut FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS, ENSMM 32, Avenue de l’Observatoire, 25044 Besancon cedex (France)
Publication:Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50 (2011) 4094
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2011-8 
Separating the surface and interface contribution of a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface by working with tunnelling currents in the sub-picoampere regime.
Author:M. Salluzzo et al.
Institute:CNR-SPIN, Complesso MonteSantangelo - Via Cinthia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy, EU
Publication:EPL, 93 (2011) 17004
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2011-7 
Micron-scale chemical state mapping of gold-tin patterns by spectroscopic XPEEM (NanoESCA)
Author:O. Renault, A. Garnier
Institute:CEA, LETI, Minatec Campus, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Publication:M. Escher*, K. Winkler, O. Renault, N. Barrett, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 178-179 (2010) 303-316,
Instrument: NanoESCA
ROM 2011-6 
Ultimate nanoprobing at low temperatures
Author:Andreas Bettac
Institute:Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH
Instrument: LT NANOPROBE
ROM 2011-5 
Tip Cleaning and Sample Design for High Resolution MOSCAP x-KPFM
Author:see: more information
Institute:see: more information
Publication:ECS Transactions, 33 (3) 97-103 (2010)
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2011-4 
Combining ultrashort-pulse laser technology with STM.
Author:Yasuhiko Terada, Shoji Yoshida, Osamu Takeuchi and Hidemi Shigekawa
Institute:Institute of Applied Physics, CREST-JST, University of Tsukuba 307-8573, Japan
Publication:Nature photonics, DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.235
ROM 2011-3 
Estimation of diffusion coefficient by photoemission electron microscopy in ion-implanted nanostructures
Author:R. Batabyala, S. Patraa, A. Roya, S. Roya, L. Bischoffb, B.N. Deva,*
Institute:(a) Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India / (b) Research Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, 01314 Dresden, Germany
Publication:Applied Surface Science 256 (2009) 536–540
ROM 2011-2 
Atomically resolved map of lateral force on reconstructed InSb(001) semiconductor surface
(Result of the month 02/2011)
Author:M. Goryl, J. Budzioch, L. Walczak, Franciszek Krok, M. Szymonki
Institute:Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2011-1 
Reversible single molecular switch operating at 300K on a surface.
Author:Mohamed El Garah, Bulent Baris, Vincent Luzet, Frank Palmino and Frédéric Chérioux(1)
Institute:(1) Institut FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS, ENSMM 32, Avenue de l’Observatoire, 25044 Besancon cedex (France)
Publication:ChemPhysChem, Volume 11, Issue 12, pages 2568–2572, August 23, 2010
Instrument: VT SPM
ROM 2010-05 
Many-body Effects in Electronic Bandgaps of Carbon Nanotubes measured by Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy
Author:H. Lin1,2, J. Lagoute1, V. Repain1, C. Chacon1, Y. Girard1, J.-S. Lauret3, F. Ducastelle2, A. Loiseau2 and S. Rousset1
Institute:(1) Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR7162, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France,
Publication:Nature Materials, 9, 235, 2010 | DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2624
ROM 2009-10 
QPlus Atomic Force Microscopy of the Si(100) Surface: Buckled, Split-off, and added Dimers
Author:A. Sweetman, S. Gangopadhyay, R. Danza, N. Berdunov, and P. Moriarty
Institute:The School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Publication:APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 95, 1 (2009)
ROM 2009-2 
Electric Field Response of a Vibrationally Excited Molecule in an STM Junction
Author:Michiaki Ohara1, Yousoo Kim1,2, Maki Kawai1,2
Institute:1 RIKEN, Wako, Japan; 2 University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
Publication:PHYSICAL REVIEW B 78, 201405(R) (2008)
ROM 2005-10 
Quantum Confinement between
Self-Organized Pt Nanowires on Ge(001)
Author:Nuri Oncel, Arie van Houselt, Jeroen Huijben, Ann-Sofie Hallbæck, Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J.W. Zandvliet, and Bene Poelsema
Institute:Solid State Physics Group and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands
Publication:Physical Review Letters coverstory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116801 (2005)
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