Enhancement of inelastic electron tunneling conductance caused by electronic decoupling in iron phthalocyanine Bilayer on Ag(111)

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 21832-21837

  Ohta, Naoka ^a   Arafune, Ryuichi ^b   Tsukahara, Noriyuki ^a   Kawai, Maki ^a   Takagi, Noriaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRONIC DECOUPLING; FIRST-LAYER MOLECULES; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING; INELASTIC TUNNELING; INELASTIC TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; IRON PHTHALOCYANINES; SECOND LAYER; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 84886670267     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406317t     Document Type: Article

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