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Epitaxial Growth of Organic Molecules on Vicinal Surfaces of Single Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Toshihiro Shimada
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan, shimada@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Takafumi Sakurada
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan, shimada@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Atsushi Koma
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan, shimada@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Abstract

Ultrathin film growth of vanadyl phthalocyanine was attempted on vicinal surfaces of hydrogen-terminated Si(111) in order to see the effect of regularly spaced steps to the growth feature. It has been observed that molecular arrangement was substantially affected when the terrace width was narrower than 2∼4 times of the molecular lattice constants. This result is probably due to the weakness of molecular interaction in the material and it accounts for the reason why ordinary graphoepitaxy has not been successful for the organic thin films.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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