Dresden 2020 – scientific programme
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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 28: Poster Session - Scanning Probe techniques: Method Development
O 28.2: Poster
Monday, March 16, 2020, 18:15–20:00, P1A
Probing relaxations of atomic-scale junctions in the Pauli repulsion range — Jonathan Brand, •Nicolas Néel, and Jörg Kröger — Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany
Clean metal as well as C60-terminated tips of an atomic force microscope probe the interaction with C60 molecules adsorbed on Cu(111) and Pb(111). The force measurements unveil a monotonic shift of the point of maximum attraction with the bias voltage. The conventional superposition of long-range van der Waals and electrostatic forces with short-range Pauli repulsion does not reproduce the shift. By phenomenologically including bias-dependent relaxations of the electrode geometry in the analytical expression for the short-range force the experimental data can qualitatively be described.