TY  - JOUR
AU  - Green, Matthew
AU  - Esat, Taner
AU  - Wagner, Christian
AU  - Leinen, Philipp
AU  - Grötsch, Alexander
AU  - Tautz, Frank Stefan
AU  - Temirov, Ruslan
TI  - Patterning a hydrogen-bonded molecular monolayer with a hand-controlled scanning probe microscope
JO  - Beilstein journal of nanotechnology
VL  - 5
SN  - 2190-4286
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
PB  - Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften
M1  - FZJ-2014-05603
SP  - 1926 - 1932
PY  - 2014
AB  - One of the paramount goals in nanotechnology is molecular-scale functional design, which includes arranging molecules into complex structures at will. The first steps towards this goal were made through the invention of the scanning probe microscope (SPM), which put single-atom and single-molecule manipulation into practice for the first time. Extending the controlled manipulation to larger molecules is expected to multiply the potential of engineered nanostructures. Here we report an enhancement of the SPM technique that makes the manipulation of large molecular adsorbates much more effective. By using a commercial motion tracking system, we couple the movements of an operator's hand to the sub-angstrom precise positioning of an SPM tip. Literally moving the tip by hand we write a nanoscale structure in a monolayer of large molecules, thereby showing that our method allows for the successful execution of complex manipulation protocols even when the potential energy surface that governs the interaction behaviour of the manipulated nanoscale object(s) is largely unknown.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000344406300001
C6  - pmid:25383304
DO  - DOI:10.3762/bjnano.5.203
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/172054
ER  -