Manipulation and writing with Ag nanocrystals on Si„111...-737
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چکیده
Manipulation of Ag nanocrystals derived from up to 200 000 atoms was performed using the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. By varying the scanning conditions, it was possible to move them laterally on contamination-free Si~111!-737 surfaces or to remove them. In both cases, thin Ag tracks were left behind. This demonstrates the concepts of nano patterning and nano painting with metals on clean semiconductor surfaces. © 1998 American Institute of Physics. @S0003-6951~98!04121-7#
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