Electrical field-induced alignment of nonpolar hexabenzocoronene molecules into columnar structures on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite investigated by STM and SFM

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5563-5566

  Cristadoro, Anna ^a   Ai, Min ^b   Räder, Hans Joachim ^a   Rabe, Jürgen P ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

COLUMNAR STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL FIELDS; HEXABENZOCORONENE (HBC); HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLITIC GRAPHITE (HOPG); NON-POLAR; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY (SFM); SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 47149096192     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp711707w     Document Type: Article

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