When Kekulé awoke from dreams of snakes biting their own tails, he didn't have the benefit
of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) image to confirm that his vision of benzene as a …

This review describes advances in understanding the structural, electronic, and chemical
properties of clean low-index semiconductor surfaces during the first decade following the …

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and
received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986. Together with the atomic force microscope (AFM) …

Using an atomic force microscope, we have observed atomic-scale features on the frictional
force acting on a tungsten wire tip sliding on the basal plane of a graphite surface at low …

This completely updated and revised second edition of Surface Analysis: The Principal
Techniques, deals with the characterisation and understanding of the outer layers of …

Solid lubricants fill a special niche in reducing wear in situations where the use of liquid
lubricants is either impractical or inadequate, such as in vacuum, space technology or …

We determine the atomic-scale friction associated with a layer of Pd atoms moving across a
graphite substrate from ab initio total-energy calculations. We evaluate the friction energy …

Images of the (0001) surface of graphite observed in the scanning-tunneling microscope
(STM) show a strong asymmetry in the tunneling current between neighboring carbon atoms …

Using a first-principles calculation, we have computed the charge density for states near EF
that is related to the current density observable in scanning-tunneling-microscopy …

Carbon has always been a unique and intriguing material from a funda mental standpoint
and, at the same time, a material with many technological uses. Carbon-based materials …