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Yongfeng Wang1, Jörg Kröger, Richard Berndt
1Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Leibnizstrasse 19, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
Abstract:
Heads or tails? The evolution of structural and electronic properties of tin-phthalocyanine films has been analyzed for sub-monolayer to multilayer coverage using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Two molecular conformations are observed: randomly dispersed for the first layer, and islands with a single conformation in subsequent layers.
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