Conduction States with Vanishing Dimerization in Pt Nanowires on Ge(001) Observed with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Abstract

The low-energy electronic properties of one-dimensional nanowires formed by Pt atoms on Ge(001) are studied with scanning tunneling microscopy down to the millivolt-regime. The chain structure exhibits various dimerized elements at high tunneling bias, indicative of a substrate bonding origin rather than a charge density wave. Unexpectedly, this dimerization becomes vanishingly small when imaging energy windows close to the Fermi level with adequately low tunneling currents. Evenly spaced nanowire atoms emerge which are found to represent conduction states. Implications for the metallicity of the chains are discussed.

arXiv comment4 pages, 4 figures

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