Nanotechnology
Atomic Identification (Name That Atom)
Front cover of Nature. Copyright Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2007
Cover of the 2007, 1st of March issue of Nature devoted to the chemical identification of individual atoms by atomic force microscopy; our Dulcinea SPM control unit, powered by WSxM, was used for the data acquisition of that Nature paper.
Y.Sugimoto et al. Nature 446, 64-67 (2007) .
Nanoindentations
Image of Topography
Indentations matrix created on Au (111) with applied forces between 2 and 8 mN with a Silicon Nitride tip.
Image size 2.5 µmx 2.5 µm.
From A.Asenjo. Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales. CSIC. Madrid
Asenjo et al. "Dislocation mechanisms in the first stage of plasticity of nanoindented Au(111) surfaces". PHYSICAL REVIEW B 73, 075431 (2006)
Atomic Nanolithography
3D Image of Topography
Topographic image of a nanostructure created by the lateral manipulation of more than 120 individual atoms at room temperature using NC-AFM.
Y.Sugimoto et al. Nature Materials 4 156-159 (2005).
