Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Indications of chemical bond contrast in AFM images of a hydrogen-terminated silicon surface

  • Hatem Labidi,
  • Mohammad Koleini,
  • Taleana Huff,
  • Mark Salomons,
  • Martin Cloutier,
  • Jason Pitters,
  • Robert A. Wolkow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14222
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Whether and under what circumstances chemical bonds could be imaged via force microscopy is a controversial topic. Here authors develop a particular combination of model surface, imaging procedures and simulation approach and discuss possible indications of chemical contrast in imaging data they obtain.