{"id":2881,"date":"2025-01-07T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:54:57","slug":"pub18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/pub18\/","title":{"rendered":"Electroisomerization blinking of an azobenzene derivative molecule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We report here the reversibility and bistability of the switching behavior in an azobenzene derivative induced by the bias applied by a scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM) tip, at low temperature and in ultra-high vacuum environment. This cis-to-trans and trans-to-cis switching were observed during STM imaging in either polarity at +2 V or \u22122 V, on a sub-second time scale. This results in a blinking effect visible on STM images, corresponding to the reversible switching of the azobenzene molecule under the applied STM bias through an electric field induced process.<\/p>\n<p>DOI : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1361-6528\/ada2f3\">doi.org\/10.1088\/1361-6528\/ada2f3<\/a><\/p><p>Authors : Sylvie Godey, Hugo Therssen, David Gu\u00e9rin, Thierry M\u00e9lin and St\u00e9phane Lenfant<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We report here the reversibility and bistability of the switching behavior in an azobenzene derivative induced by the bias applied by a scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM) tip, at low temperature and in ultra-high vacuum environment. This cis-to-trans and trans-to-cis switching were observed during STM imaging in either polarity at +2 V or \u22122 V, on a<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/pub18\/\" class=\"home-blog-btn\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-axe-1","tag-axe1"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1.jpg",620,620,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1.jpg",620,620,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1.jpg",620,620,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1.jpg",620,620,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1.jpg",620,620,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1-12x12.jpg",12,12,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image1-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/author\/zpqq18wlui98\/"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"We report here the reversibility and bistability of the switching behavior in an azobenzene derivative induced by the bias applied by a scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM) tip, at low temperature and in ultra-high vacuum environment. This cis-to-trans and trans-to-cis switching were observed during STM imaging in either polarity at +2 V or \u22122 V, on aRead&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosciences-spm-uhv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}