Atomically resolved real-space imaging of hot electron dynamics
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.
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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
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.
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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
Related articles
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
Faculty of Science
Physics
