• 文献标题:   Direct Observation of Individual Charges and Their Dynamics on Graphene by Low-Energy Electron Holography
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LATYCHEVSKAIA T, WICKI F, LONGCHAMP JN, ESCHER C, FINK HW
  • 作者关键词:   lowenergy electron, holography, charge transfer, graphene, adatom
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Zurich
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01881
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Visualizing individual charges confined to molecules and observing their dynamics with high spatial resolution is a challenge for advancing various fields in science, ranging from mesoscopic physics to electron transfer events in biological molecules. We show here that the high sensitivity of low-energy electrons to local electric fields can be employed to directly visualize individual charged adsorbates and to study their behavior in a quantitative way. This makes electron holography a unique probing tool for directly visualizing charge distributions with a sensitivity of a fraction of an elementary charge. Moreover, spatial resolution in the nanometer range and fast data acquisition inherent to lens-less low-energy electron holography allows for direct visual inspection of charge transfer processes.