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Invited Review Engineering of single molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope tip

✍ Scribed by Saw-Wai Hla; Karl-Heinz Rieder

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 814 KB
Volume: 31
Category: Article
ISSN: 0749-6036
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.2002.1014

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✦ Synopsis

The rapid progress in molecular manipulation with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip opens up entirely new opportunities in nanoscience and technology. With these advances, the ultimate chemical reaction steps such as dissociation, diffusion, adsorption, re-adsorption and bond formation processes become possible to be performed by using the STM tip at the single molecule level with an atomic scale precision. By using a variety of manipulation techniques in a systematic and step-by-step manner, a complete chemical reaction sequence has been induced with the STM tip leading to the synthesis of molecules on an individual basis. In this paper, various STM manipulation techniques useful in the single molecule engineering process are reviewed, and their impact on the future of nanoscience and technology is discussed.

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