- This page is to display the different publications and references I've obtained into important journals related to science:
The fields of study of my phD thesis are Chemistry, Physics, surface Science and nanotechnology.

Simulations have been done at the nanoscopic and the mesoscopic regimes respectively STM simulations on Silicon 111 and Monte Carlo Simulations on Copper 110

NEWS & VIEWS:

Surface patterning: Silicon falls into line NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
April 2008 doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.79

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:

Molecular switches/Shape shifting: NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
January 05/2007 doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.1

Self-assembling Nano-corrals: CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS
February 27/2006 Volume 84/ number 9/ page 5

PUBLICATIONS:

Dipole-Directed Assembly of Lines of 1,5-Dichloropentane by Displacement of Surface Charge in Si(100)
K. Harikumar , Tingbin Lim , Iain McNab , John C. Polanyi, Linda Zotti , Serge Ayissi , Werner Hofer Nature Nanotechnology 3, 222-228 (2008)

Maskless nanopatterning and formation of nanocorrals and switches, for haloalkenes at Si(111)-7x7
S. Dobrin, KR Harikumar, TB Lim, L Leung, IR McNab, JC Polanyi, PA Sloan, Z Waqar, J Yang, S Ayissi, WA Hofer Nanotechnology 18 , 044012 (2007)

Electronic Switching of Silicon Atoms by Molecular Field Effects
Krishnan R. Harikumar, John C. Polanyi, Peter A. Sloan, Serge Ayissi, and Werner A. Hofer Journal of American Chemical Society 128 , 16791 (2006)

Self-assembled molecular corrals on a semiconductor surface
S. Dobrin, K.R. Harikumar, R.V. Jones, N. Li, I.R. McNab, J.C. Polanyi, P.A. Sloan, Z. Waqar, J.(S.Y.) Yang, S. Ayissi and W.A. Hofer Surface Science Letters 600 , L43 - L46 (2006)

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