Stable alignment of 4,4″-diamino-p-terphenyl chemically adsorbed on a Si(001)-(2 × 1) surface observed by scanning tunneling microscopy
Abstract
Low coverages of 4,4″-diamino-p-terphenyl (DAT) molecules deposited on a Si(001)-(2 × 1) surface in ultrahigh vacuum at room temperature were observed by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The linear framework of DAT, consisting of a central benzene ring, two phenyl rings (terphenyl) and two amino groups at both ends, mostly lay down laterally on the surface. The majority of DATs were tilted at about 17° with respect to the direction of a Si dimer row on the surface, though a variety of DAT configuration with different angles was found by STM. The histograms of the tilted angles showed that the most frequent angle was 17°. The apparent height of DAT tilted at 17° looked hollow at the center and lower than that of other configurations of DAT in STM images. This indicates that the DAT tends to take a double arched shape at the tilted angle of 17° in a stable conformation with butterfly-like bonding through the central benzene ring to a Si dimer as well as through the two amino groups bonded to respective Si atoms on the dimer row.
identifier:https://dspace.jaist.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10119/13701
Journal
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- Surface Science
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Surface Science 630 96-100, 2014-07-23
Elsevier
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1050001337538485376
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- NII Article ID
- 120005819531
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- ISSN
- 00396028
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- Web Site
- http://hdl.handle.net/10119/13701
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Article Type
- journal article
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- Data Source
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- IRDB
- CiNii Articles