Seeing Atoms & Molecules
COSMOS 2008
Wilson HoUniversity of California, Irvine
50,000,000 x Magnification Stock Metals Silver Atoms
Silicon(111)
The Virtue of Being Single: A Molecular View
50,000,000x Magnification
Galileo, 1992 Reines Hall3,900,000 Miles UC Irvine
Galileo
Apollo 16 – North America
Los Angeles Basin
Newport Beach - Irvine
Home of the Anteaters
Reines Hall - UCI
Tunneling Phenomenon
STM Tip
Tornado: Miami, Texas, May 29, 1994
Quantum Tunneling of Electrons
Tunneling Microscopy
Vacuum Tunneling
Topography
Silicon(111)
Principles of Modern Chemistry, 6th edition, Oxtoby, Gillis, and Campion (Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2007).
Houghton-Mufflin Science, California Edition (2007).
Single H Atom
H Atom on Cu(001)
Random Walk of Single H Atom
Single Atom Tracking
Single H Diffusion
Acknowledgment
Past Present Jennifer Gaudioso Xi Chen Jae Ryang Hahn Ungdon Ham Lincoln Lauhon Hyojune Lee Niklas Nilius Joon Hee Lee Xiaohui Qiu Ning Liu Mohammad Rezaei Gary Mikaelian Barry Stipe George Nazin Mitch Wallis Nilay Pradhan
Christophe Silien Xiuwen Tu
Shiwei Wu Shiwu Gao Mats Persson Nicolas Lorente
Self-Cleaning Lotus Plant
The Lotus Effect
Rough Surface Smooth Surface
Wilhelm Barthlott Paint & Roof Tiles
Lotusan Paint Regular Paint
STM Apparatus
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
STM in Vacuum
Manipulation Mechanism
Pd20 Chain
Seeing LUMO of Mg-Porphine
(Mukamel) (Ho)
“Seeing is Believing”
A Still Photo
Gold Chains Under Construction
Gold Chains: 1 to 20 Atoms
2-D Box: Standing Waves
2-D Box: Standing Waves