Mapping the excited states of single hexa- peri -benzocoronene oligomers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3230-3235

  Soe, We Hyo ^a   Wong, Hon Seng ^a   Manzano, Carlos ^a   Grisolia, Maricarmen ^b   Hliwa, Mohamed ^b,c   Feng, Xinliang ^d   Müllen, Klaus ^d   Joachim, Christian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES BEN M SIK   (Morocco)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

interactions; quantum chemistry; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; surface science

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC RESONANCE; HEXABENZOCORONENE; LINEAR SUPERPOSITIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR STATE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SLATER DETERMINANTS; SURFACE SCIENCE; TETRAMERS;

CHEMICAL BONDS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DIMERS;

EID: 84860370808     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300110k     Document Type: Article

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