Living on the edge: A nanographene molecule adsorbed across gold step edges

Surface Science

Volumn 602, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Treier, Matthias ^a   Ruffieux, Pascal ^a   Schillinger, Richard ^b,c   Greber, Thomas ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^d   Fasel, Roman ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Au(1 1 1); Hexabenzocoronene; Kinks; Photoelectron diffraction; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Vicinal single crystal surfaces

Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (1 1 1) ORIENTATION; ADSORPTION GEOMETRIES; CHARACTERISATION; GRAPHENE; HEXA-PERI-HEXABENZOCORONENE (HBC); PREFERENTIAL ADSORPTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); STEP EDGES; X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON DIFFRACTION (XPED);

EID: 45849129798     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2008.04.031     Document Type: Article

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