Adsorption behavior of iron-phthalocyanine (FePc) at low submonolayer coverage on a reconstructed Au(111) single crystalline surface was investigated by a combination of low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and density functional theory . . .

We use low energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy, first-principles density-functional theory, and molecular mechanics calculations to analyze the adsorption and growth of quinacridone derivatives (QA) with alkyl chains of 4 and 16 . . .

Two surface reconstruction patterns, strikingly different from the Au(111) intrinsic herringbone reconstruction, have been observed at the interfaces between Au(111) and the self-assembled monolayer of perylene or iron phthalocyanine by scanning tunne . . .

The weakly interacting interface, perylene on Ag(110), has been systematically investigated in detail with molecular-beam epitaxy and low-energy-electron diffraction (LEED), low-temperature-scanning-tunneling microscopy (STM), and first-principles cal . . .

Growth behavior of iron(II) phthalocyanine (FePc) molecules on Au(111) surface at the initial stage is studied with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. The FePc molecules are separately adsorbed on the face-centered cubic and the hexagonal . . .

The electrical transport properties of nanosystems, including a few kinds of nanowires, have attracted much attention because of their potential application in nanoelectronics. However, the contact effect or impurities between the nanosystems and elec . . .

Selective analysis of molecular states in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has so far been achieved in a few cases by tuning the bias range of the STM in high-resolution measurements. Correspondingly, perylene adsorbed in a close-packed monolayer o . . .

We report on the structural evolution at the initial growth stage of perylene thin films on Au(1 1 1) surface. Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy have been employed to investigate the structural and electronic properties at 78 K. Rapid mol . . .

We demonstrate a special four-probe scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) system in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV), which can provide coarse positioning for every probe independently with the help of scanning electron microscope (SEM) and fine positioning down . . .