publication . Other literature type . Article . 1990

Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope

E. K. Schweizer; D. M. Eigler;
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  • Published: 01 Apr 1990
  • Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Abstract
SINCE its invention in the early 1980s by Binnig and Rohrer1,2, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) has provided images of surfaces and adsorbed atoms and molecules with unprecedented resolution. The STM has also been used to modify surfaces, for example by locally pinning molecules to a surface3 and by transfer of an atom from the STM tip to the surface4. Here we report the use of the STM at low temperatures (4 K) to position individual xenon atoms on a single-crystal nickel surface with atomic pre-cision. This capacity has allowed us to fabricate rudimentary structures of our own design, atom by atom. The processes we describe are in principle applicable ...
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doi: 10.1038/344524a0
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free text keywords: Molecular physics, Xenon, chemistry.chemical_element, chemistry, Atom, Microscope, law.invention, law, Scanning tunneling microscope, Quantum tunnelling, Solid-state physics, Molecule, Stereochemistry, Atoms in molecules
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