Playing Pinball with Atoms

Saedi, Amirmehdi and Houselt van, Arie and Gastel van, Raoul and Poelsema, Bene and Zandvliet, Harold J.W. (2009) Playing Pinball with Atoms. Nano Letters, 9 (5). pp. 1733-1736. ISSN 1530-6984

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Abstract:	We demonstrate the feasibility of controlling an atomic scale mechanical device by an external electrical signal. On a germanium substrate, a switching motion of pairs of atoms is induced by electrons that are directly injected into the atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope tip. By precisely controlling the tip current and distance we make two atom pairs behave like the flippers of an atomic-sized pinball machine. This atomic scale mechanical device exhibits six different configurations.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2009 American Chemical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Catalytic Processes and Materials (CPM) Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials (PIN)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/61339
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl8022884
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