Tuning intermolecular interaction in long-range-ordered submonolayer organic films

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-158

  Stadler, Christoph ^a   Hansen, Sören ^a   Kröger, Ingo ^a   Kumpf, Christian ^a,c   Umbach, Eberhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULE-MOLECULE INTERACTIONS; ORDERED SUPERSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC ADSORBATES; ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHTHALOCYANINE MOLECULES; SMALL-CRYSTALLINE; SURFACE TERRACES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 59449083982     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1176     Document Type: Article

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