Theoretical study of short- and long-range forces and atom transfer in scanning force microscopy

Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

1964 • 48,242 citations

Atomic Force Microscope

1986 • 14,074 citations

Intermolecular and Surface Forces

2011 • 7,781 citations

Surface Studies by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

1982 • 4,521 citations

Theory of the scanning tunneling microscope

1985 • 4,089 citations

Forces in Molecules

1939 • 3,570 citations

Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope

1990 • 3,051 citations

Theory and Application for the Scanning Tunneling Microscope

1983 • 2,438 citations

Tunnelling from a Many-Particle Point of View

1961 • 1,858 citations

Atomic-scale friction of a tungsten tip on a graphite surface

1987 • 1,715 citations

Tunneling Phenomena in Solids

1969 • 1,213 citations

Atomistic Mechanisms and Dynamics of Adhesion, Nanoindentation, and Fracture

1990 • 1,123 citations

Atomic and Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope

1991 • 1,101 citations

Scanning tunneling microscopy—from birth to adolescence

1987 • 1,001 citations

Simplified method for calculating the energy of weakly interacting fragments

1985 • 962 citations

An atomic switch realized with the scanning tunnelling microscope

1991 • 775 citations

Universal Binding Energy Curves for Metals and Bimetallic Interfaces

1981 • 769 citations

Van der Waals interaction between an atom and a solid surface

1976 • 660 citations

Universal features of bonding in metals

1983 • 586 citations

Field-Induced Nanometer- to Atomic-Scale Manipulation of Silicon Surfaces with the STM

1991 • 568 citations

Atomic Resolution with Atomic Force Microscope

1987 • 541 citations

Transition from the tunneling regime to point contact studied using scanning tunneling microscopy

1987 • 499 citations

Self-Consistent Many-Electron Theory of Electron Work Functions and Surface Potential Characteristics for Selected Metals

1969 • 452 citations

Interatomic Forces in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Giant Corrugations of the Graphite Surface

1986 • 444 citations

Atomic emission from a gold scanning-tunneling-microscope tip

1990 • 441 citations

Charged-particle interaction with liquids: Ripplon excitations

1989 • 428 citations

Theory of helium adsorption on simple and noble-metal surfaces

1977 • 372 citations

Atomic force microscopy using optical interferometry

1988 • 313 citations

Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Close-Packed Metal Surfaces by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

1989 • 307 citations

Experimental Observation of Forces Acting during Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

1986 • 284 citations

Origins of the universal binding-energy relation

1988 • 277 citations

First-principles theory of atomic-scale friction

1990 • 277 citations

Negative Differential Resistance on the Atomic Scale: Implications for Atomic Scale Devices

1989 • 257 citations

On the stability of a tip and flat at very small separations

1988 • 242 citations

Tip-sample interaction effects in scanning-tunneling and atomic-force microscopy

1990 • 214 citations

Hellmann-Feynman and Virial Theorems in the X α Method

1972 • 205 citations

Atomic resolution with the atomic force microscope on conductors and nonconductors

1988 • 202 citations

Resistance of a one-atom contact in the scanning tunneling microscope

1987 • 192 citations

Observation of metallic adhesion using the scanning tunneling microscope

1990 • 181 citations

Theoretical study of transport through a quantum point contact

1991 • 148 citations

Avalanche in adhesion

1989 • 145 citations

Roles of the attractive and repulsive forces in atomic-force microscopy

1991 • 139 citations

Nanomechanics and dynamics of tip–substrate interactions

1991 • 139 citations

Contact resistance in the scanning tunneling microscope at very small distances

1988 • 132 citations

Site-dependent electronic effects, forces, and deformations in scanning tunneling microscopy of flat metal surfaces

1990 • 128 citations

van der Waals interactions between sharp probes and flat sample surfaces

1991 • 123 citations

Reference-plane position for the atom-surface van der Waals interaction

1984 • 121 citations

Dimensionality and size effects in simple metals

1986 • 119 citations

New Approach to Calculation of Total Energies of Solids with Defects: Surface-Energy Anisotropies

1987 • 110 citations

The interaction of helium with smooth metal surfaces

1984 • 104 citations

Inelastic flow processes in nanometre volumes of solids

1990 • 99 citations

A theory of adhesion at a bimetallic interface: Overlap effects

1973 • 94 citations

Theory of transition from the tunneling regime to point contact in scanning tunneling microscopy

1989 • 87 citations

Attractive interatomic force as a tunnelling phenomenon

1991 • 82 citations

Theory of scanning tunneling microscopy

1990 • 77 citations

Physics and chemistry in high electric fields

1991 • 72 citations

Density-functional calculation of the dynamic image plane at a metal surface: Reference-plane position of He- and<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">H</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>-metal van der Waals interaction

1986 • 69 citations

Atomic resolution atomic force microscopy of graphite and the ‘‘native oxide’’ on silicon

1988 • 68 citations

Theory of metallic adhesion

1979 • 61 citations

Elastic oscillatory resistances of small contacts

1989 • 59 citations

van der Waals interaction between an atom and a surface at finite separations

1986 • 58 citations

Experimental study of forces between a tunnel tip and the graphite surface

1988 • 52 citations

Scanning-tunneling microscopy at small tip-to-surface distances

1987 • 51 citations

van der Waals force between a spherical tip and a solid surface

1989 • 48 citations

Possible mechanisms of atom transfer in scanning tunneling microscopy

1986 • 46 citations

Molecular orbital theory and tunnelling currents

1988 • 45 citations

Adhesion between Al slabs and mechanical properties

1976 • 44 citations

Effects of the constriction geometry on quasi-one-dimensional transport: Adiabatic evolution and resonant tunneling

1989 • 42 citations

Atomic force microscopy: General aspects and application to insulators

1988 • 41 citations

The Van der Waals interaction between metals

1975 • 32 citations

Theory of anomalous corrugation of the Al(111) surface obtained from scanning tunneling microscopy

1990 • 27 citations

Theoretical atomic-force-microscopy study of a stepped surface: Nonlocal effects in the probe

1991 • 26 citations

Universal aspects of adhesion and atomic force microscopy

1990 • 23 citations

Study of metallic adhesion using scanning tunneling microscopy

1990 • 21 citations

Adhesive energy, force and barrier height between simple metal surfaces

1992 • 18 citations

Atomic-scale tip-sample interactions and contact phenomena

1992 • 15 citations

Comment on ‘‘First principles theory of atomic-scale friction’’

1991 • 15 citations

Critical study of perturbative approaches to tunneling

1992 • 9 citations