Abstract
We study tip-adsorbate–substrate interactions in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) manipulation and imaging, and the influence of impurities on the images. Thence, we perform molecular dynamics simulations and calculate qualitative STM images for oxygen on Pt(1 1 1) surface. The adsorption site of the oxygen molecule is found to be in accordance with ab initio calculations. The calculated STM image has a good resemblance to the experimental ones. The contamination of the tip by oxygen or water alters the STM image strongly. Molecular dynamics simulations on manipulations of oxygen on the surface reveal several mechanisms of how molecular oxygen can be either produced or decomposed with STM tip. Finally, we find out that transfer of oxygen from the surface to an STM tip is not very probable.
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