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Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.113, No.12, 4837-4839, 2000
Single molecule vibrational spectroscopy and microscopy: Cu(II) etioporphyrin-I on Cu(001)
A scanning tunneling microscope was used to perform inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy on single Cu(II) etioporphyrin-I molecules. The resulting vibrational spectra showed an increase in ac tunneling conductance at 359 mV. This change was attributed to the vibrational excitation of the methene bridge C-H stretch mode. Vibrational microscopy was used to image the spatial distribution of the inelastic tunneling channels involved in this excitation.