title: Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on single molecular landers.
abstract: Molecular landers are molecules comprising of a central rigid molecular wire maintained above a metallic surface by organic spacers, which allows specific ultrahigh vacuum-scanning tunneling microscopy experiments to be performed at the single-molecule level. The understanding of the molecule-surface interactions, intramolecular mechanics, and the possibility to perform extremely precise tip-induced manipulation permit these molecules to be brought in contact with a nanoelectrode and the resulting electronic interaction to be analyzed in well controlled conditions.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moresco
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gourdon
mesh_terms: D004581:Electronics; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling / Q000379:methods*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D036103:Nanotechnology; D014618:Vacuum