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Atomic Resolution on Molecules with Functionalized Tips

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Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

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Atomic resolution on molecules was obtained by employing functionalized tips, that is, deterministic chemical modifications of the last tip atoms, for NC-AFM. The most widely used tip fuctionalization for this purpose to date is a single CO molecule. Here we review the contrast mechanism and compare different tip functionalizations. Furthermore, we describe the use of NC-AFM with functionalized tips for the identification of molecular structures, the determination of molecular adsorption geometries, bond-order discrimination, and for Kelvin probe force microscopy with sub-molecular resolution.

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The authors thank R. Allenspach, R. Berndt, S. Collazos, G. Costantini, A. Criado, A. Curioni, S. Decurtins, S. Fatayer, D.J. Fox, F.J. Giessibl, A. Gourdon, E. Guitián, K. O. Hanssen, N. Hauptmann J. Isaksson, M. Jaspars, P. Jelinek, S. Kawai, P. Liljeroth, S.-X. Liu, W. Liu, A. Mistry, G. Münnich, M. Neu, N. Pavliček, D. Peña, D. Pérez, M. Persson, A. Pöllmann, M. Ruben, W. Steurer, I. Swart, A. Tkatchenko, and J. Weymouth for collaboration and discussions, and the EU projects ARTIST (contract no. 243421), PAMS (contract no. 610446) and the ERC advanced grant CEMAS for financial support.

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Gross, L., Schuler, B., Mohn, F., Moll, N., Repp, J., Meyer, G. (2015). Atomic Resolution on Molecules with Functionalized Tips. In: Morita, S., Giessibl, F., Meyer, E., Wiesendanger, R. (eds) Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15588-3_12

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