Molecular scale alignment strategies: An investigation of Ag adsorption on patterned fullerene layers
- 17 November 1997
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 71 (20) , 2937-2939
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.120221
Abstract
We have developed a procedure for atomic scale alignment with respect to macroscopic objects. Metallic and etched registration marks on clean reconstructed Si surfaces are used to guide the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope. The metallic marks are formed from Ta and can withstand thermal cycling up to 1500 K. These procedures have been used to investigate the interaction of Ag with a patterned fullerene multilayer deposited on Si(111)-
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