Projektnummer

0051668

Zusammenfassung

The aim is to study the physical and chemical properties of individual adsorbates and molecular-scale adsorbate structures on insulating films on the atomic length-scale. The central technique is low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), which in the past has been used to study metal and semiconducting surfaces with great success. Similar studies on insulating surfaces are very promising, and, most importantly, many physical and chemical properties are not only quantitatively but also qualitatively different on an insulating surface from those on a (semi-)conducting surface....