Because it is an intrinsically slow technique, scanning tunnelling microscopy is not usually useful for studying the dynamics of particles on a surface. This issue is now solved by using scanning noise microscopy, which yields a complete characterization of copper phthalocyanine molecules on Cu(111), ranging from the dynamical processes to the underlying electronic structure at the single-molecule level.
- Johannes Schaffert
- Maren C. Cottin
- Rolf Möller