Image of the Month

PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: November 1, 2006
iotm-november-2006

Microscope:
Unisoku Ultrahigh LT-STM

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description :
Uniform Pb nanowires of magic thickness on Si(111) controlled by elastic interaction and quantum size effects.

L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, P. Jiang, Y. S. Fu, S. H. Ji, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue – Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing – Department of PHysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: October 1, 2006
iotm-october-2006

Microscope:
Home Built UHV 4K STM

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

The experiment was carried out in UHV with a home build 4K STM using a Femto preamplifier and the RHK SPM1000. The images shows 17 Fe atoms on Cu(111) which were laterally manipulated with the STM to form the letters PI.

T. Balashov, A. Takacs, W. Wulfhekel Physikalisches Institut Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Wolfgang Geade Strasse 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: September 1, 2006
iotm-september-2006

Microscope:
Omicron STM1

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Cl-induced etching of Si(100)-(2×1) under conditions of super-saturation. A saturated surface was heated to 800 K while being exposed to a Cl2 flux to facilitate Cl insertion into dimer bonds. The dark lines are etch pits in the top layer that were produced by a new reaction pathway

Courtesy of Abhishek Agrawal, R.E. Butera, and J.H. Weaver, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: August 1, 2006
institution

Microscope:
Home-built beetle-type low temperature STM

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description :
Thin alumina film on Ni3Al(111) acquired at 3.2V bias.

Courtesy of S. Degen, A. Krupski, M. Kralj, C. Becker and K. Wandelt, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: July 1, 2006
institution

Microscope:
UHV 3000 STM

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description:
Single molecule “nanocar” that contains a chassis, axles and four buckyball wheels

Courtesy of Yasuhiro Shirai, Andrew J. Osgood, Yuming Zhao, Kevin F. Kelly and James M. Tour Departments of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: June 1, 2006
institution

Microscope:
RHK QuadraProbe
Four-Point STM Multisystem

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description:
The surface is Si(111) with a 7×7 reconstruction

Zhouhang Wang,
RHK Technology

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: May 1, 2006
iotm-may-2006

Microscope:
Home-built atomic force microscope in a He-3 cryostat

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description:
Single-electron charging events of a quantum dot that forms in a semiconducting carbon nanotube at temperature T=4K, visualized by an atomic force microscope using resonance frequency shift microscopy. The quantum dot is located at the center of the concentric rings. As the tip moves towards the quantum dot, a single electron tunnels onto the quantum dot each time the tip crosses a dark line.

Jun Zhu, Paul L. McEuen and Markus Brink
Cornell Universit

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: April 1, 2006
institution

Microscope:
Home-built Confocal Microscope

Controls:
SPM 1000 Control System

Description:
Fluorescence image of DNA deposited on streptavidin-coated glass surface. The painting “Degas Dancers” by Gina Candelori written with green and red channels using rhodamine green and alexa 647-labeled DNA with 1 micron pixels.

Kit T. Rodolfa, Andreas Bruckbauer, Dejian Zhou, Yuri E. Korchev, and David Klenerman – University of Cambridge and Imperial College London

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: March 1, 2006
institution

Microscope: RHK UHV 400 STM (Now UHV 700)
Controls: SPM 1000 Control System

Self-Assembling Nano Corrals Study reveals spontaneous reactions that alter surface electronic properties.

Courtesy of:
John Polanyi, Sergey Dobrin, K. Rajamma Harikumar and Peter Sloan

University of Toronto

+Show More
PRIcon
Image of the Month
Posted Date: February 1, 2006
institution

Microscope: USM-1300
Controls: SPM 1000

STS data on Si(111) at 4K numerically differentiated to obtain dI/dV as a functon of position.

Courtesy of:
Masanori Ono and
Yukio Hasegawa
University of Tokyo

+Show More