Temperature-programmed desorption of large molecules: influence of thin film structure and origin of intermolecular repulsion

• Published in: Nanoscale Vol. 13; no. 32; pp. 13816 - 13826
• Main Authors: Dombrowski, Pierre-Martin, Kachel, Stefan R, Neuhaus, Leonard, Gottfried, J. Michael, Witte, Gregor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 28.08.2021
• Subjects: Adsorbates; Algorithms; Desorption; Dipole moments; Gold; Metal surfaces; Molecular structure; Moments of inertia; Monolayers; Multilayers; Noble metals; Photomicrographs; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Quantitative analysis; Solid surfaces; Substrates; Thin films; Work functions
• ISSN: 2040-3364; 2040-3372; 2040-3372
• DOI: 10.1039/d1nr03532k

Although the exact knowledge of the binding energy of organic adsorbates on solid surfaces is of vital importance for the realization of molecular nanostructures and the theoretical modelling of molecule-substrate interactions, an experimental determination is by no means trivial. Temperature-progra...