Formation of stable Si–O–C submonolayers on hydrogen-terminated silicon(111) under low-temperature conditions

• Yit Lung Khung,
• Siti Hawa Ngalim,
• Andrea Scaccabarozzi and
• Dario Narducci

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 19–26, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.3

• essential towards directing the nature of surface linkage. Keywords: hydrogen abstraction; thermal hydrosilylation; UV-initated hydrosilylation; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Introduction Forming covalently-attached organic submonolayers on silicon remains one of the challenges in surface science. In