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Qinmin Guo1, Min Huang, Zhihui Qin
1State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiaohongshan West 30, Wuchang, Wuhan 430071, China.
Abstract:
To observe molecular orbitals using scanning tunneling microscopy, well-ordered oxidized layers on Cu(001) were fabricated to screen the individual adsorbed cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) molecules from the electronic influence of the metal surface. Scanning tunneling microscope images of the molecule on this oxidized layer show similarities to the orbital distribution of the free molecule. The good match between the differential conductance mapping images and the calculated charge distribution at energy levels corresponding to the frontier orbitals of CoPc provides more evidence of the screening of the oxidized layer from interactions between the metal surface and supported molecules.
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