Forces and currents in carbon nanostructures: Are we imaging atoms?

0361470 - FZÚ 2012 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Ondráček, Martin - Pou, P. - Rozsíval, V. - González, C. - Jelínek, Pavel - Pérez, R.
Forces and currents in carbon nanostructures: Are we imaging atoms?
Physical Review Letters. Roč. 106, č. 17 (2011), "176101-1"-"176101-4". ISSN 0031-9007. E-ISSN 1079-7114
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA202/09/0545; GA ČR GAP204/10/0952
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) M100100904
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100521
Keywords : atomic force microscopy * scanning tunneling microscopy * carbon nanotubes * graphite * graphene * first-principles calculations * atomic resolution
Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism
Impact factor: 7.370, year: 2011
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i17/e176101

First-principles calculations show that the rich variety of image patterns which has been reported in the literature for carbon nanostructures imaged by the atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes can be rationalized in terms of the chemical reactivity of the tip and the distance of the tip from the sample.
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