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All-electronic Nanosecond-resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Facilitating the Investigation of Single Dopant Charge Dynamics
Published on: January 19, 2018
Imaging Pauli repulsion in scanning tunneling microscopy
C Weiss1, C Wagner, C Kleimann
1Institut für Bio- und Nanosysteme 3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been equipped with a nanoscale force sensor and signal transducer composed of a single D2 molecule that is confined in the STM junction. The uncalibrated sensor is used to obtain ultrahigh geometric image resolution of a complex organic molecule adsorbed on a noble metal surface. By means of conductance-distance spectroscopy and corresponding density functional calculations the mechanism of the sensor and transducer is identified. It probes the short-range Pauli repulsion and converts this signal into variations of the junction conductance.
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