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Crystallographic Processing of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images of Cobalt Phthalocyanines on Silver and Graphite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

P. Moeck ,
J. Straton ,
M. Toader  and
M. Hietschold
P. Moeck
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A. *pmoeck@pdx.edu. **hietschold@physik.tu-chemnitz.de
J. Straton
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A. *pmoeck@pdx.edu. **hietschold@physik.tu-chemnitz.de
M. Toader
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, D-09126 Chemnitz, Germany
M. Hietschold
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A. *pmoeck@pdx.edu. **hietschold@physik.tu-chemnitz.de Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, D-09126 Chemnitz, Germany
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Abstract

Monolayers of cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) and fluorinated cobalt phthalocyanine (F16CoPc) on silver (111) and on highly (0001) oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) were imaged with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) at cryogenic temperatures (around 30 K) at Chemnitz University of Technology. Domains of regular arrays with periodicity in two dimensions (2D) and a variety of plane symmetries were observed. Crystallographic image processing (CIP) was used to quantify deviations from the plane symmetry groups and to obtain symmetrized versions of the content of the average unit cells of some of these arrays. Conclusions on the point symmetry of the CoPc and F16CoPc molecules within the arrays were drawn.

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scanning probe microscopy (SPM)crystallographic structurenanostructure
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1318: Symposium SS/TT/UU/VV – Advances in Spectroscopy and Imaging of Surfaces and Nanostructures , 2011 , mrsf10-1318-vv01-05
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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