Atomically resolved real-space imaging of hot electron dynamics

Name: Atomically resolved real-space imaging of hot electron dynamics
Published: 2015

The dynamics of hot electrons are central to understanding the properties of many electronic devices. But their ultra-short lifetime, typically 100 fs or less, and hence their corresponding transport length-scale of a few nanometers severely constrains real space investigations. Here we report variable temperature and voltage measurements of the nonlocal manipulation of adsorbed molecules on the Si(111)-7x7 surface in the scanning tunnelling microscope. The range of the nonlocal effect increases with temperature and, at constant temperature, is invariant over a wide range of electron energies. The measurements probe, in real space, the underlying hot electron dynamics on the 10 nm scale and are well described by a two-dimensional diffusive model with a single decay channel, consistent with 2PPE measurements of the real time dynamics.

Subjects:

Chemical reaction dynamics and mechanisms

Physical Organic Chemistry

Superconductivity, magnetism and quantum fluids

Condensed Matter Physics

Cite this dataset as:
Lock, D., Rusimova, K., Pan, T., Palmer, R., Sloan, P., 2015. Atomically resolved real-space imaging of hot electron dynamics. Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00126.

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Room temperature data for local manipulation of toluene molecules.

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Room temperature data for nonlocal manipulation of benzene molecules.

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Room temperature data for local manipulation of chlorobenzene molecules.

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Variable temperature data for nonlocal manipulation of chlorobenzene molecules.

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Room temperature data for nonlocal manipulation of toluene molecules.

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Creators

Duncan Lock
University of Bath

Kristina Rusimova
University of Bath

Tianlau Pan
University of Birmingham

Richard Palmer
University of Birmingham

Peter Sloan
University of Bath

0000-0002-0810-8468

Documentation

Data collection method:

Please see main paper methods section. For radial distributions we present the raw N/N0 and thermally corrected data as well, again see methods section for details.

Methodology link:

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9365

Funders

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266

Breaking the Single Atom Limit in Atomic Manipulation
EP/K00137X/1

Publication details

Publication date: 2015
by: University of Bath

Version: 1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00126

URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/126

Lock, D., Rusimova, K. R., Pan, T. L., Palmer, R. E. and Sloan, P. A., 2015. Atomically resolved real-space imaging of hot electron dynamics. Nature Communications, 6(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9365.

Contact information

Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.

Contact person: Peter Sloan

Departments:

Faculty of Science
Physics