Diatomic molecular switches to enable the observation of very-low-energy vibrations

作者:Pivetta Marina*; Ternes Markus; Patthey Francois; Schneider Wolf Dieter
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2007, 99(12): 126104.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.126104

摘要

Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we found that the coadsorption of atomic hydrogen to single transition-metal and rare-earth-metal atoms on a Ag(100) surface gives rise to surprising phenomena, a bias dependent switching from a large to a small apparent size of the diatomic molecules and a concomitant appearance of very low-energy vibrational features of 3 to 7 meV in the differential conductance spectra. These phenomena, which have until now escaped observation, may be of general relevance for low-temperature adsorption.

  • 出版日期2007-9-21