Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Resolving sub-angstrom ambient motion through reconstruction from vibrational spectra

  • Jack Griffiths,
  • Tamás Földes,
  • Bart de Nijs,
  • Rohit Chikkaraddy,
  • Demelza Wright,
  • William M. Deacon,
  • Dénes Berta,
  • Charlie Readman,
  • David-Benjamin Grys,
  • Edina Rosta,
  • Jeremy J. Baumberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26898-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Tracking single molecule movements is a challenging task, but highly desired for applications and fundamental studies. Here the authors reconstruct the sub-angstrom relative movements of a molecule interacting with a metal adatom, by measuring its vibrational spectrum in a self-assembled monolayer, continuously modified by the adatom in a nanoparticle-on-mirror construct.