TY - JOUR
AU - Strozecka, A.
AU - Muthukumar, K.
AU - Larsson, J.A.
AU - Dybek, A.
AU - Dennis, T.J.S.
AU - Myslivecek, J.
AU - Voigtländer, B.
TI - Electron-induced excitation of vibrations of Ce atoms inside a C-80 cage
JO - Physical review / B
VL - 83
IS - 16
SN - 1098-0121
CY - College Park, Md.
PB - APS
M1 - PreJuSER-15823
SP - 165414
PY - 2011
N1 - This work was supported by the FP6 Marie Curie Early Stage Training Network NANOCAGE (MEST-CT-2004-50-6854), Science Foundation Ireland, and the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (MSM 0021620834). We acknowledge the SFI/HEA Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) for generous allotment of computer resources. We thank J. I. Pascual and K. J. Franke for many helpful discussions.
AB - Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of Ce-2@C-80 dimetallofullerenes reveals a low-energy inelastic excitation that is interpreted using ab initio calculations and associated with the movements of encapsulated Ce atoms inside the C-80 cage. The electron-vibration interaction in Ce-2@C-80 is unusually high, inducing a pronounced zero-bias anomaly in differential conductance of Ce-2@C-80. Our observations show that the atoms encapsulated in fullerene cages can actively participate in determining the properties of molecular junctions.
KW - J (WoSType)
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000289518100007
DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.165414
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/15823
ER -