Overlayer structure of subphthalocyanine derivative deposited on Au (111) surface by splay-jet technique |
Hitoshi Suzuki, Toshiki Yamada, Hideki Miki, Shinro Mashiko |
A new spray-jet technique was used to deposit subphthalocyanice derivative (chloro[tri- tert -butyl subphthalocyaninato]boron(TBSubPc) ) on Au (111) surface in an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chamber. The deposited molecular overlayer was observed with UHV scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at 77K. The STM images showed that TBSubPc molecules formed a stripe pattern with regular spacing, indicating that they preferentially adsorbed along the herringbone structure of the Au (111) surface. This behavior was very similar to that of TBSubPc molecules deposited by thermal evaporation. |