A scanning tunnelling microscopy investigation of gold island formation from an octanethiol self-assembled monolayer on Au(1 1 1)

Surface Science

Volumn 604, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-170

  Taylor, Richard ^a   Torr, Nicholas ^a   Huang, Zhao ^a   Li, Fangsen ^a   Guo, Quanmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gold; Nucleation and growth; SAMs; Scanning tunnelling microscopy; Self assembled monolayer; Self assembly; STM; Surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

AU(1 1 1 ); GOLD ATOMS; GOLD ISLANDS; NEGATIVE BIAS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; OCTANETHIOL; SAMS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE LAYER; SMALL ISLAND; STM; THIOL MOLECULES; TIP-INDUCED; WATER ELECTROLYSIS;

BIAS VOLTAGE; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; HYDROGEN; NUCLEATION; OXYGEN; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE DIFFUSION; WIND TUNNELS;

GOLD;

EID: 72649087754     PISSN: 00396028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2009.10.034     Document Type: Article

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