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演 題 「Surface Femtochemistry: From Desorbing Atoms to Rotating Molecular Machines」
日 時 2012年03月05日(月) 17:00
講演者 Professor Hrvoje Petek, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
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研究棟201セミナー室

概 要

We describe the imaging surface adsorbate electronic structure and its dynamical changes in surface femtochemistry for atomic and atom-like adsorbates on noble metal surfaces.1  Specifically, we use time-resolved two-photon photoemission momentum imaging to measure snapshots of angle resolved photoemission spectra for alkali atoms in the process of photodesorption from Cu and Ag surfaces.  We also describe the atom-like superatom states of hollow molecules, with the specific example of C60 and endohedral fullerenes with metal atom inclusions.2-4  We discuss the case of Li@C60, for which the charge-transfer excitation of the superatom state triggers internal femtochemistry, as a prototype for a single molecule machine. And finally, we demonstrate the actuation of a single molecule machine between three pairs of enantiomeric states by inelastic tunneling of electrons from an STM tip.5

1 Zhao, J., et al., "Electronic potential of a chemisorption interface." Phys. Rev. B 78, 085419 (2008).
2 Feng, et al., "Atomlike, Hollow-Core-Bound Molecular Orbitals of C60." Science 320, 359 (2008).
3 Zhao, J., et al., "The Superatom States of Fullerenes and Their Hybridization into the Nearly Free Electron Bands of Fullerites." ACS Nano 3, 853 (2009).
4 Feng, M., et al., "The Electronic Properties of Superatom States of Hollow Molecules." Acc. Chem. Res. 44, 360 (2011).
5 Huang, T., et al., "A Molecular Switch Based on Current-Driven Rotation of an Encapsulated Cluster within a Fullerene Cage." Nano Lett. 11, 5327 (2011).

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