Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces

Johannes V. Barth, Giovanni Costantini and Klaus Kern ()
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Johannes V. Barth: Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Giovanni Costantini: Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung
Klaus Kern: Institut de Physique des Nanostructures, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7059, 671-679

Abstract: Abstract The fabrication methods of the microelectronics industry have been refined to produce ever smaller devices, but will soon reach their fundamental limits. A promising alternative route to even smaller functional systems with nanometre dimensions is the autonomous ordering and assembly of atoms and molecules on atomically well-defined surfaces. This approach combines ease of fabrication with exquisite control over the shape, composition and mesoscale organization of the surface structures formed. Once the mechanisms controlling the self-ordering phenomena are fully understood, the self-assembly and growth processes can be steered to create a wide range of surface nanostructures from metallic, semiconducting and molecular materials.

Date: 2005
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