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Inelastic spectroscopy identification of STM-induced benzene dehydrogenation
M-L Bocquet1, H Lesnard, N Lorente
1Laboratoire de Chimie, UMR 5182, ENS Lyon, France. mbocquet@ens-lyon.fr
Abstract:
Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) performed with the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been deemed as the ultimate tool for identifying chemicals on the atomic scale. However, IETS-based chemical analysis is error-prone due to the numerous degrees of freedom of chemisorbed molecular systems. First-principles simulations of IETS are presented that, by quantitative comparison with the experimental spectra, permit one to determine the final products of an STM-induced reaction on chemisorbed benzene. Our simulations reveal that IETS possesses an enhanced sensitivity to atomic structure as compared to topographic imaging due to both its energy and space resolution.
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