The construction of electronic devices from single molecular building blocks, which possess
certain functions such as switching or rectifying and are connected by atomic-scale wires on …

A scanning tunneling microscope operating at 5 K is used to induce the isomerization of
single chloronitrobenzene molecules on Cu (111) and verify the reaction. The threshold …

A new approach is introduced for the selective deposition of colloidal gold nanoparticles
(AuNPs) onto the surface of unpatterned self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). The patterning …

Devices for nano-and molecular-size electronics are currently a focus of research aimed at
an efficient current rectification and switching. A few generic molecular scale devices are …

Die Erdalkalifluoride Calciumfluorid CaF2, Bariumfluorid BaF2 und in geringerem Umfang
auch Strontiumfluorid SrF2 sind technologisch in hohem Maße relevante Materialien. Alle …

This thesis describes the study of two diverse systems, a cluster of silver atoms, and
individual silver and bromine atoms, deposited on a metallic single crystal Ag (111) …

Current interest in molecular electronics [1, 2] and spintronics [3, 4] is largely driven by
expectations that these emerging technologies can be used to overcome bottlenecks of …