Scanning tunneling and photoemission spectroscopies at the PTCDA/Au(1 1 1) interface

Organic Electronics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 287-294

  Nicoara, Nicoleta ^a,b   Román, Elisa ^a   Gómez Rodríguez, José M ^b   Martín Gago, José A ^a   Méndez, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Organic molecules; Photoemission spectroscopy; PTCDA; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy; Surface states

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FERMI LEVEL; MULTILAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ORGANIC MOLECULES; PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PTCDA; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE STATES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 33748928293     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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