O Gurlu et al 2007 Nanotechnology 18 365305 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/18/36/365305
O Gurlu1,3, A van Houselt1,4, W H A Thijssen2, J M van Ruitenbeek2, B Poelsema1 and H J W Zandvliet1
Show affiliationsThe possibility of controlled local demolition and repair of the recently discovered self-organized Pt nanowires on Ge(001) surfaces has been explored. These nanowires are composed of Pt dimers, which are found to be rather weakly bound to the underlying substrate. Using this property, we demonstrate the possibility of carrying the constituting dimers of the Pt nanowires from point to point with atomic precision at room temperature. Pt dimers can be picked-up in two configurations: (i) a horizontal configuration at the tip apex, resulting in double tip images and (ii) a configuration where the Pt dimer is attached to the side of the tip apex, resulting in well-defined atomically resolved images.
Issue 36 (12 September 2007)
Received 11 April 2007, in final form 10 July 2007
Published 14 August 2007
O Gurlu et al 2007 Nanotechnology 18 365305
Steven L Guberman 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 192 012001
James E Lidsey 2009 Class. Quantum Grav. 26 147001
T Moiseev et al 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 225202
A AlShaikhi and G P Srivastava 2008 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41 185407
H Löwen 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 474203
T Martens et al 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 122002
E Latu-Romain et al 2008 Nanotechnology 19 345304
P Siyushev et al 2009 New J. Phys. 11 113029
Paulo Vargas Moniz et al 2009 Class. Quantum Grav. 26 245003