BEHAVIOR OF CHARGE-DENSITY WAVES IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ORGANIC CONDUCTOR VISUALIZED BY SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY

Authors
NISHIGUCHI T KAGESHIMA M ARAKATO N KAWAZU A
Citation
T. Nishiguchi et al., BEHAVIOR OF CHARGE-DENSITY WAVES IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ORGANIC CONDUCTOR VISUALIZED BY SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY, Physical review letters, 81(15), 1998, pp. 3187-3190
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
15
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3187 - 3190
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:15<3187:BOCWIA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Charge density waves (CDW) in a tetrathiafulvalene-tetracyanoquinodime thane (TTF-TCNQ) single crystal have been studied with molecular resol ution using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM). For the first time the periodicities of the CDW along both the a and b ax es have been observed and were found to be coincident with those of th e 2k(F) CDW. The influence of crystal singularities on the ordering of the CDW along the a axis was also revealed. [S0031-9007(98)07263-9].