Role of the substrate in electronic structure, molecular orientation, and morphology of organic thin films: diindenoperylene on rutile TiO2(110).
The results of our multitechnique investigation performed on diindenoperylene thin films deposited on rutile TiO2(110) show island growth, with crystallites nucleating preferentially along the [110] substrate crystallographic axis. The findings evidence that the films' properties at the interface are common to those found for a number of organic molecules deposited on the same substrate, revealing that the structural and morphological properties of organic thin films on rutile TiO2(110) are completely driven by its surface morphology.
Schuster
Britt-Elfriede
BE
Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Casu
M Benedetta
MB
Biswas
Indro
I
Hinderhofer
Alexander
A
Gerlach
Alexander
A
Schreiber
Frank
F
Chassé
Thomas
T