Structural analysis of pentacene thin film growth on polycrystalline O x-Au surfaces using scanning tunneling microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2104-2108

  Zheng, Yi ^a   Shen Wee, Andrew Thye ^a   Chandrasekhar, Natarajan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Pantacene; STM; Structural analysis; Thin film growth

Indexed keywords

AU SURFACES; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; INTERMOLECULE INTERACTION; LAYER-BY-LAYER GROWTH; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; ORGANIC/METAL INTERFACES; PANTACENE; PENTACENE THIN FILMS; PENTACENES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POLYCRYSTALLINE METALS; POLYCRYSTALLINE PHASIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); STAND -ALONE; STM; SUBSTRATE INTERACTION; SUBSTRATE ROUGHNESS;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL CONSERVATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 77951704911     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9015218     Document Type: Article

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