High-Resolution Molecular Orbital Imaging Using a p-Wave STM Tip

High-Resolution Molecular Orbital Imaging Using a p-Wave STM Tip:
Author(s): Leo Gross, Nikolaj Moll, Fabian Mohn, Alessandro Curioni, Gerhard Meyer, Felix Hanke, and Mats Persson
Individual pentacene and naphthalocyanine molecules adsorbed on a bilayer of NaCl grown on Cu(111) were investigated by means of scanning tunneling microscopy using CO-functionalized tips. The images of the frontier molecular orbitals show an increased lateral resolution compared with those of the b...

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086101] Published Mon Aug 15, 2011