Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

A Grewal, CC Leon, K Kuhnke, K Kern… - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we experimentally and theoretically investigate
isolated platinum phthalocyanine (PtPc) molecules adsorbed on an atomically thin NaCl …

Atomic Charge Dependency of Spiropyran/Merocyanine Adsorption as a Precursor to Surface Isomerization Reactions

A Riemann, L Rankin, D Henry - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
This computational study investigates the adsorption of various spiropyran and merocyanine
isomers on a NaCl substrate using a combination of density functional theory (DFT) and …

Gating single-molecule fluorescence with electrons

K Kaiser, M Romeo, F Scheurer, G Schull… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Tip-enhanced photoluminescence (TEPL) measurements are performed with sub-
nanometer spatial resolution on individual molecules decoupled from a metallic substrate by …

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Manipulating Electrons and Photons by Varying Buffer Layer

A Grewal, CC Leon, O Gunnarsson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11956, 2024 - arxiv.org
In scanning tunneling microscopy of molecules, an insulating buffer layer is often introduced
to reduce interaction between the molecules and the substrate. Focusing on tunneling …