Franck-condon coupling in anthracene isomer self-assembled layers and symmetry effects on the high resolution ultraviolet photoemission spectra

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1015-1018

  Rosa, Luis G ^a,b,c   Jiang, Jinyue ^d   Wong, Freddy Li ^a,b   Xiao, Jie ^c   Utreras, Emmanuel ^a,b   Lima, Ocelio V ^d   Alvira, Jose ^a,b   Losovyj, Ya B ^c,e   Tan, Li ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINE STRUCTURES; FRANCK-CONDON; GAS-PHASE MEASUREMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOEMISSION; PHOTOELECTRON EMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SEMI-EMPIRICAL CALCULATION; SILICON OXIDE SURFACES; SURFACE NORMALS; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTRA;

ANTHRACENE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; ISOMERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOEMISSION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 75449120476     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp906245w     Document Type: Article

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