Makoto Ashino et al 2005 Nanotechnology 16 S134 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/16/3/024
Makoto Ashino1, Alexander Schwarz1,4, Hendrik Hölscher2, Udo D Schwarz3 and Roland Wiesendanger1
Show affiliationsAtomic scale data obtained with atomic force microscopy (AFM) in the dynamic mode on graphite and a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) are compared with simulations to relate the observed contrast to the real surface structure. The complete surface unit cell, and particularly the carbon site asymmetry on graphite, can be resolved in the attractive non-contact regime as well as in the weakly repulsive intermittent contact regime. On an SWNT, no carbon site asymmetry is present and the contrast above neighbouring carbon atoms in the attractive non-contact regime is symmetric. The experimental results can be qualitatively reproduced using a Lennard-Jones potential and a graphene layer with and without carbon site asymmetry to model the tip–sample interaction.
Issue 3 (March 2005)
Received 25 November 2004, in final form 21 January 2005
Published 3 February 2005
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