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Manipulation and Spectroscopy Using AFM/STM at Room Temperature

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Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

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In the atom manipulation process with atomic force microscopy (AFM) at room temperature, reduction of the local energy barrier induced by interaction forces between atoms of a tip and a surface plays a key role. This means that the force value depending on the tip-apex condition determines the success of manipulation. In the first part of this chapter, the probability of the AFM atom manipulation is discussed. It is found that the value of the maximum attractive force, i.e. the tip reactivity, determines the manipulation capability. In addition, the potential barrier reduction can be used for various purposes such as local chemical reactions, barrier height control of the potential of nanospace, and fabrication of atomic-sized materials (i.e., nanoclusters). In the second part of the chapter, nanoclusters are fabricated as an application of the AFM atom manipulation. Half-unit cells of the Si(111)-(\(7\times 7\)) are used as a nanospace for structuring the atomic-sized clusters.

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    Such a broad dispersion of \(F_{\max }\) can be attributed to the varying degrees of tip-apex chemical reactivity [37, 38].

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), and by the Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers.

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  1. Center for Science and Technology Under Extreme Conditions, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama-Cho, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Masayuki Abe

  2. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-Oka 2-1, Suita, 565-0871, Japan

    Yoshiaki Sugimoto

  3. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan

    Seizo Morita

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Abe, M., Sugimoto, Y., Morita, S. (2015). Manipulation and Spectroscopy Using AFM/STM at Room Temperature. 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_4

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