Molecular electronic level alignment at weakly coupled organic film/metal interfaces

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10988-10997

  Zhao, Jin ^a,b,c   Feng, Min ^c   Dougherty, Daniel Barker ^d   Sun, Hao ^a   Petek, Hrvoje ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy level alignment; image potential; quantum well state

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON AFFINITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FILM PREPARATION; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; MULTILAYER FILMS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PRECIOUS METALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; IMAGE-POTENTIAL; INTERFACIAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; QUANTUM-WELL STATE; SINGLE-MOLECULE RESOLUTION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84908426117     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5049969     Document Type: Article

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