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Engineering

Hand Controlled Manipulation of Single Molecules via a Scanning Probe Microscope with a 3D Virtual Reality Interface

Philipp Leinen^1,2, Matthew F. B. Green^1,2, Taner Esat^1,2, Christian Wagner^1,2, F. Stefan Tautz^1,2, Ruslan Temirov^1,2

¹Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, ²Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA)

We demonstrate the precise manipulation of individual organic molecules on a metal surface with the tip of a scanning probe microscope driven in 3D by the experimenter's hand using a motion capture system and fully immersive virtual reality goggles.