Manufacturing 'made to measure' atomic-scale electrodes

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 17:03 in Physics & Chemistry

Thanks to collaborative work between scientists in Donostia-San Sebastian and the University of Kiel (Germany) it has been shown that it is possible to determine and control the number of atoms in contact between a molecule and a metal electrode of copper, at the same time as the electric current passing through the union being recorded. These results were published in the Nature Nanotechnology journal...

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