Tuning Dimensionality by Nanowire Adsorption on Layered Materials
Authors:
- 12 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (7) , 1303-1306
Abstract
The dimensionality of electronic states determines a number of physical phenomena such as phase transitions, transport, or superconductivity. Employing scanning tunneling microscopy combined with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we demonstrate how the dimensionality of electronic states can be continuously tuned from three to two dimensions. This is achieved by adsorption of nanowires on surfaces of layered crystals without changing the chemical composition of the material. Exemplary results for Rb nanowires on are discussed with the help of electronic structure calculations.
Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- How to Determine Fermi Vectors by Angle-Resolved PhotoemissionPhysical Review Letters, 1999
- Nanowire networks on perfectly flat surfacesApplied Physics Letters, 1999
- Locally modified charge-density waves in Na intercalatedstudied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopyPhysical Review B, 1999
- Dynamics of Correlated Two-Dimensional Materials: TheCasePhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Density-functional theory calculations for poly-atomic systems: electronic structure, static and elastic properties and ab initio molecular dynamicsComputer Physics Communications, 1997
- Complete band-structure determination of the quasi-two-dimensional Fermi-liquid reference compoundPhysical Review B, 1996
- A subroutine package for computing Green's functions of relaxed surfaces by the renormalization methodComputer Physics Communications, 1993
- 3D-to-2D transition by Cs intercalation ofPhysical Review Letters, 1993
- Saddle-point pairing: An electronic mechanism for superconductivityPhysical Review Letters, 1992
- Enhanced Superconductivity in Quasi Two-Dimensional SystemsPhysical Review Letters, 1986