TY - JOUR
T1 - Decoration of surfaces with size-selected clusters and molecular manipulation at room temperature: precision and uncertainty in organizing atoms
AU - Palmer, R E
AU - Sloan, Peter A
AU - Xirouchaki, C
PY - 2004/6/15
Y1 - 2004/6/15
N2 - The deposition onto surfaces of clusters of atoms, prepared and size-selected in the gas phase, is, like atomic or molecular manipulation with the scanning tunnelling
microscope, an appealing (but parallel) route to the creation of nanoscale surface features. Both of these seemingly orthogonal approaches allow, in principle, a selected number of atoms to be organized, and both are strongly affected by the lateral thermal diffusion of the constituent atoms, molecules or clusters over the surface. In this sense, the room-temperature (as opposed to cryogenic-temperature) regime can be regarded as a hostile environment for organizing atoms. In this paper we review
recent achievements in size-selected cluster deposition and molecular manipulation at room temperature and thus address the fundamental question: with what precision can we organize atoms at room temperature?
AB - The deposition onto surfaces of clusters of atoms, prepared and size-selected in the gas phase, is, like atomic or molecular manipulation with the scanning tunnelling
microscope, an appealing (but parallel) route to the creation of nanoscale surface features. Both of these seemingly orthogonal approaches allow, in principle, a selected number of atoms to be organized, and both are strongly affected by the lateral thermal diffusion of the constituent atoms, molecules or clusters over the surface. In this sense, the room-temperature (as opposed to cryogenic-temperature) regime can be regarded as a hostile environment for organizing atoms. In this paper we review
recent achievements in size-selected cluster deposition and molecular manipulation at room temperature and thus address the fundamental question: with what precision can we organize atoms at room temperature?
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2004.1372
U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2004.1372
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2004.1372
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-503X
VL - 362
SP - 1195
EP - 1205
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
IS - 1819
ER -