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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
Broken symmetry of an adsorbed molecular switch determined by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Thiruvancheril G Gopakumar1, Tugba Davran-Candan, Julia Bahrenburg
1Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24098 Kiel (Germany); Current address: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208016 (India). gopa@physik.uni-kiel.de.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|September 10, 2013
Abstract:
An asymmetric turn: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has been used to analyze the structure of tris[4-(phenylazo)phenyl)]amine on a Au(111) surface. A degenerate marker state serves as a sensitive probe for the structure of the adsorbed molecules.

