Observation of Individual Molecules Trapped on a Nanostructured Insulator
Observation of Individual Molecules Trapped on a Nanostructured Insulator
For the first time, ordered polar molecules confined in monolayer-deep rectangular pits produced on an alkali halide surface by electron irradiation have been resolved at room temperature by noncontact atomic force microscopy. Molecules self-assemble in a specific fashion inside pits of width smaller than 15 nm. By contrast no ordered …