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Moving individual atoms on a surface with the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope now enables the production of artificial atoms and molecules with precisely engineered molecular orbital energy-level diagrams.

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Figure 1: Illustration of the different quantum dot realizations.

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  1. Hanno H. Weitering is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA,

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Weitering, H. One atom at a time. Nature Nanotech 9, 499–500 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.132

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