Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2012,3, 186–191, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.20
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 10.3762/bjnano.3.20 Abstract The growth of pentacene on KCl(001) at submonolayer coverage was studied by dynamic scanning force microscopy. At coverages below one monolayer pentacene was found to arrange in islands with
; pentacene; scanning force microscopy; self-assembly; Introduction
To understand the functionalization of surfaces with molecular building blocks, an important step is to study the self-assembly of molecules. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) enables such studies on conductive surfaces [1][2]. On metallic
molecules adsorbed on insulating materials is the scanning force microscope (SFM). To date only a limited number of molecules have been studied on insulating substrates, see for example [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Among the frequently studied organic molecules, pentacene has promising perspectives for
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Figure 1:
(a) SFM image showing part of a large pentacene island that overgrows two monoatomic substrate step...