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Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies
Isolating single molecules in the solid state has allowed fundamental experiments in basic and applied sciences. When cooled down to liquid helium temperature, certain molecules show transition lines that are ...
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Step-by-step rotation of a molecule-gear mounted on an atomic-scale axis
Designing and building molecular machines at the nanometre scale is a conceptual and synthetic challenge. Rotation of a single molecule has been observed but controlling the direction of the rotation has so fa...
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Contacting a single molecular wire by STM manipulation
The Lander molecule (C90H98) consists of a long polyaromatic molecular wire and four lateral di-tert-butyl-phenyl spacer groups, designed to maintain the molecular wire parallel above the substrate. It represents...
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A mechanical approach to the dissipation process in NC-AFM: experiments, model and simulation
Experiments performed using NC-AFM on a pure graphite surface suggest that the mechanical deformation of the surface under test is able to explain the observed dam** signal. A simple analytical model has bee...