Organic molecular beam deposition: Growth studies beyond the first monolayer

F Schreiber - physica status solidi (a), 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent work on organic molecular beam deposition (OMBD) with emphasis on
growth studies beyond the first monolayer, ie the evolution of the film structure and …

Physics of ultra-thin phthalocyanine films on semiconductors

N Papageorgiou, E Salomon, T Angot, JM Layet… - Progress in surface …, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the structural arrangements, as seen in scanning tunneling
microscopy, chemical and electric properties, as studied especially by high resolution …

Nanostructured surfaces: challenges and frontiers in nanotechnology

F Rosei - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanostructured surfaces can be broadly defined as substrates in which the typical features
have dimensions in the range 1–100 nm (although the upper limit of 100 nm may be relaxed …

Lock-and-key effect in the surface diffusion of large organic molecules probed by STM

R Otero, F Hümmelink, F Sato, SB Legoas… - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
A nanoscale understanding of the complex dynamics of large molecules at surfaces is
essential for the bottom-up design of molecular nanostructures,,,,,,,. Here we show that we …

Structural relaxation of adlayers in the presence of adsorbate-induced reconstruction:

WW Pai, CL Hsu, MC Lin, KC Lin, TB Tang - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
We revisit submonolayer growth of C 60 on Cu (111) by scanning tunneling microscopy
(STM), with emphasis on the formation of higher-order commensurate metastable states …

Scanning tunneling microscopy observation of coiled aluminum nitride nanotubes

C Balasubramanian, S Bellucci, P Castrucci… - Chemical physics …, 2004 - Elsevier
We report the first observations of AlN nanotubes in twisted and helicoidal arrangements,
with clear indications of hexagonal atomic arrangement. The AlN nanotubes, synthesized by …

One‐Dimensional Assembly and Selective Orientation of Lander Molecules on an O–Cu Template

R Otero, Y Naitoh, F Rosei, P Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Properly functionalized organic molecules are promising building blocks for nanoscale
electronic circuits.[1] A major challenge is to develop a novel technology to assemble such …

Observation of individual molecules trapped on a nanostructured insulator

L Nony, E Gnecco, A Baratoff, A Alkauskas… - Nano Letters, 2004 - ACS Publications
For the first time, ordered polar molecules confined in monolayer-deep rectangular pits
produced on an alkali halide surface by electron irradiation have been resolved at room …

Controlled manipulation of a single molecular wire along a copper atomic nanostructure

L Grill, F Moresco, P Jiang, C Joachim, A Gourdon… - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
Different stable conformations of a molecular wire along a short copper nanostructure are
studied by means of low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and controlled …

Growth kinetics, structure, and morphology of para-quaterphenyl thin films on gold (111)

S Müllegger, I Salzmann, R Resel… - The Journal of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Conjugated organic materials have become promising candidates for various applications in
molecular electronics and optoelectronics. 1–3 Amongst other materials oligophenylenes …