Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Initiating and imaging the coherent surface dynamics of charge carriers in real space

  • K. R. Rusimova,
  • N. Bannister,
  • P. Harrison,
  • D. Lock,
  • S. Crampin,
  • R. E. Palmer,
  • P. A. Sloan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12839
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The charge injected from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope quickly spreads across the surface and can manipulate distant adsorbates. Here, the authors use this nonlocal manipulation to probe the ultrafast ballistic dynamics and coherent evolution of the injected charge carrier.