Force sensing with nanowire cantilevers

FR Braakman, M Poggio - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanometer-scale structures with high aspect ratios such as nanowires and nanotubes
combine low mechanical dissipation with high resonance frequencies, making them ideal …

Periodic charging of individual molecules coupled to the motion of an atomic force microscopy tip

N Kocić, P Weiderer, S Keller, S Decurtins, SX Liu… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Individual molecules at the edges of self-assembled islands grown on Ag (111) can be
deliberately switched in their charge state with the electric field from a scanning-probe tip …

Quantum state readout of individual quantum dots by electrostatic force detection

Y Miyahara, A Roy-Gobeil, P Grutter - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Electric charge detection by atomic force microscopy (AFM) with single-electron resolution (e-
EFM) is a promising way to investigate the electronic level structure of individual quantum …

Fully quantized electron transfer observed in a single redox molecule at a metal interface

A Roy-Gobeil, Y Miyahara, KH Bevan, P Grutter - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Long-range electron transfer is a ubiquitous process that plays an important role in
electrochemistry, biochemistry, organic electronics, and single molecule electronics …

Mechanical dissipation from charge and spin transitions in oxygen-deficient SrTiO3 surfaces

M Kisiel, OO Brovko, D Yildiz, R Pawlak, U Gysin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Bodies in relative motion separated by a gap of a few nanometers can experience a tiny
friction force. This non-contact dissipation can have various origins and can be successfully …

Revealing energy level structure of individual quantum dots by tunneling rate measured by single-electron sensitive electrostatic force spectroscopy

A Roy-Gobeil, Y Miyahara, P Grutter - Nano Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present theoretical and experimental studies of the effect of the density of states of a
quantum dot (QD) on the rate of single-electron tunneling that can be directly measured by …

Charge-induced structural changes in a single molecule investigated by atomic force microscopy

P Scheuerer, LL Patera, F Simbürger, F Queck… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Intramolecular structural relaxations occurring upon electron transfer are crucial in
determining the rate of redox reactions. Here, we demonstrate that subangstrom structural …

Forces from periodic charging of adsorbed molecules

N Kocić, S Decurtins, SX Liu, J Repp - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In a recent publication [Kocić et al., Nano Lett. 15, 4406 (2015)], it was shown that gating of
molecular levels in the field of an oscillating tip of an atomic force microscope can enable a …

Tip-induced artifacts in magnetic force microscopy images

O Iglesias-Freire, JR Bates, Y Miyahara… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Useful sample information can be extracted from the dissipation in frequency modulation
atomic force microscopy due to its correlation to important material properties. It has been …

Room-temperature single-electron charging detected by electrostatic force microscopy

A Tekiel, Y Miyahara, JM Topple, P Grutter - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
We use atomic force microscopy to measure electron addition spectra of individual Au
nanoparticles that exhibit Coulomb blockade at room temperature. The cantilever tip …