Communications Materials (Aug 2022)

Disentangling the electronic structure of an adsorbed graphene nanoring by scanning tunneling microscopy

  • Jose Martinez-Castro,
  • Rustem Bolat,
  • Qitang Fan,
  • Simon Werner,
  • Hadi H. Arefi,
  • Taner Esat,
  • Jörg Sundermeyer,
  • Christian Wagner,
  • J. Michael Gottfried,
  • Ruslan Temirov,
  • Markus Ternes,
  • F. Stefan Tautz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00275-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Scanning tunneling microscopy is a powerful tool for determining the electronic structure of surface adsorbates. Here, carbon monoxide functionalized tips enable more accurate probing of the molecular states of graphene nanorings adsorbed on a gold surface.