Tilting in coronene layers on Au(111)

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
Nathaniel W KabatPetra Reinke

Abstract

Control of molecule adsorption and ordering on metal surfaces is of critical importance for the design and fabrication of molecule-based functional materials. In the present work, the molecule layer structures of coronene on Au(111) and HOPG are studied by combining scanning tunneling microscopy with image analysis techniques to unravel small changes in molecule adsorption geometry. Coronene forms a densely packed layer on Au(111) and HOPG at room temperature, but does not preferentially decorate the herringbone reconstruction. The molecule layer structure is confirmed by histograms of molecule radius and apparent height obtained from STM images using a python based open source code. Annealing at 116 °C initiates a tilting of coronene molecules on Au(111) by about 11 ± 4° which is deduced from statistical image analysis. The structural analysis is combined with an assessment of apparent height modulation with bias voltage to ascertain the reliability of the statistical analysis. Our work illustrates that the combination of advanced image analysis processing and STM images allows one to extract even small changes in a molecule layer structure.

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