Vibrational sum frequency spectroscopic investigation of the azimuthal anisotropy and rotational dynamics of methyl-terminated silicon(111) surfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 935-944

  Malyk, Sergey ^a   Shalhout, Fadel Y ^a   O'Leary, Leslie E ^b   Lewis, Nathan S ^b   Benderskii, Alexander V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-FOLD SYMMETRY; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; DEPHASING; METHYL GROUP; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; SI (1 1 1); SI(111) SUBSTRATE; SILICON (111) SURFACE; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; SUM FREQUENCY; SURFACE BOUNDS; TIME-SCALES; VIBRATIONAL SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION; SILICON;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

EID: 84872736628     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3067298     Document Type: Article

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