Charge state control of molecules reveals modification of the tunneling barrier with intramolecular contrast

I Swart, T Sonnleitner, J Repp - Nano Letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
From scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy experiments it is shown that control
over the charge-state of individual molecules adsorbed on surfaces can be obtained by …

Atomic scale control of single molecule charging

G Mikaelian, N Ogawa, XW Tu, W Ho - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A scanning tunneling microscope was used to study charging of single copper
phthalocyanine molecules adsorbed on an ultrathin Al 2 O 3 film grown on a NiAl (110) …

Selective analysis of molecular states by functionalized scanning tunneling microscopy tips

ZT Deng, H Lin, W Ji, L Gao, X Lin, ZH Cheng, XB He… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Selective analysis of molecular states in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has so far
been achieved in a few cases by tuning the bias range of the STM in high-resolution …

Imaging thin films of organic molecules with the scanning tunnelling microscope

RE Palmer, Q Guo - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
This article gives a topical review of the application of the scanning tunnelling microscope
(STM) to the characterisation of thin films (typically monolayers) of organic molecules on …

Images of adsorbates with the scanning tunneling microscope: theoretical approaches to the contrast mechanism

P Sautet - Chemical Reviews, 1997 - ACS Publications
From the inception of scanning tunneling microscopy, the precise interpretation of the atomic
scale images has always been a concern and a problem. This stems from the fact that the …

Probing molecular excited states by atomic force microscopy

S Fatayer, F Albrecht, I Tavernelli, M Persson, N Moll… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
By employing single charge injections with an atomic force microscope, we investigated
redox reactions of a molecule on a multilayer insulating film. First, we charged the molecule …

Probing potential-tuned resonant tunneling through redox molecules with scanning tunneling microscopy

NJ Tao - Physical Review Letters, 1996 - APS
We have studied electron transfer through redox molecules adsorbed on a conductive
substrate with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in aqueous solution. By adjusting the …

Picometer-scale electronic control of molecular dynamics inside a single molecule

M Lastapis, M Martin, D Riedel, L Hellner, G Comtet… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Tunneling electrons from a low-temperature (5 kelvin) scanning tunneling microscope were
used to control, through resonant electronic excitation, the molecular dynamics of an …

Evidence of switching and rectification by a single molecule effected with a scanning tunneling microscope

A Aviram, C Joachim, M Pomerantz - Chemical Physics Letters, 1988 - Elsevier
Organic molecules, designed to have an asymmetrical double-well potential for two protons,
were synthesized. The structure allows the switching of the position of the protons by an …

Scanning tunneling microscopy of adsorbates on insulating films. From the imaging of individual molecular orbitals to the manipulation of the charge state

J Repp, G Meyer - Applied Physics A, 2006 - Springer
Ultrathin insulating films on metal substrates are unique systems for using a scanning
tunneling microscope to study the electronic properties of single atoms and molecules that …