This is a web-app to illustrate the electrostatic gating of a single molecule by charged atoms deposited near it using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The molecule acts as a quantum dot in a single electron transistor that has a size of just one nanometer. The physics behind this can be found in:
Martínez-Blanco, J.; Nacci, C.; Erwin, S.C.; Kanisawa, K.; Locane, E.; Thomas, M.; von Oppen, F.; Brouwer, P.W. & Fölsch, S. Nature Physics (2015).
The subapplication for the calculation of the nanostructure electrostatic potential is taken from the app Gating_with_adatoms.
The interactivity has been implemented using the javascript visualization library d3.js.
You can try the web-app in the project site.
This web-app has been awarded with the first prize in the IGK contest (2015) of the publicly funded project (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB-658.
Apart from d3.js, a copy of two javascript libraries are included and used, namely PNGlib.js and Bessel.JS. A guided tour through the app is also implemented, for which jQuery.js and Bootstrap-tour.js are used.
Enjoy!
Jesús Martínez-Blanco