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  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Silicon (Si)(100)-2 × 1 surfaces exhibit buckled dimer structures.
  • Uncontrolled dimer flipping leads to a time-averaged symmetric appearance in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).
  • Stabilization requires surface defects or low temperatures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate variable-length buckled dimer wires on hydrogenated Si(100).
  • Demonstrate controlled flipping of these dimer wires.
  • Explore potential applications in memory and random number generation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at 4.5 K.
  • Employed bias pulsing to controllably flip buckled dimers.
  • Observed the behavior of variable-length dimer wires.

Main Results:

  • Achieved frozen dimer switching at low scanning biases on degenerate p-type silicon.
  • Demonstrated controllable flipping of dimer wires using bias pulses.
  • Showed that a single pulse can flip up to 37 dimers uniformly.
  • Confirmed that tip-directed flipping of one wire does not affect adjacent wires.
  • Observed telegraph noise generation at high biases.

Conclusions:

  • Buckled dimer wires on hydrogenated Si(100) can be controllably manipulated.
  • These wires show promise as well-isolated, rewritable binary memory elements.
  • The generated telegraph noise could be utilized for random number generation.
  • Integration with silicon dangling bond logic gates could enable STM-tip-free operation.