中国物理B ›› 2017, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (8): 86801-086801.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/8/086801

• CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Thermo-controllable self-assembled structures of single-layer 4, 4"-diamino-p-terphenyl molecules on Au (110)

Junhai Ren(任俊海), Deliang Bao(包德亮), Li Dong(董立), Lei Gao(高蕾), Rongting Wu(武荣庭), Linghao Yan(闫凌昊), Aiwei Wang(王爱伟), Jiahao Yan(严佳浩), Yeliang Wang(王业亮), Shixuan Du(杜世萱), Qing Huan(郇庆), Hongjun Gao(高鸿钧)   

  1. 1 Institute of Physics & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Beijing Key Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Nanodevices, Beijing 100190, China
  • 收稿日期:2017-05-15 修回日期:2017-05-25 出版日期:2017-08-05 发布日期:2017-08-05
  • 通讯作者: Shixuan Du, Qing Huan E-mail:sxdu@iphy.ac.cn;huanq@iphy.ac.cn

Thermo-controllable self-assembled structures of single-layer 4, 4"-diamino-p-terphenyl molecules on Au (110)

Junhai Ren(任俊海)1, Deliang Bao(包德亮)1, Li Dong(董立)1, Lei Gao(高蕾)1, Rongting Wu(武荣庭)1, Linghao Yan(闫凌昊)1, Aiwei Wang(王爱伟)1, Jiahao Yan(严佳浩)1, Yeliang Wang(王业亮)1,2, Shixuan Du(杜世萱)1,2, Qing Huan(郇庆)1,2, Hongjun Gao(高鸿钧)1,2   

  1. 1 Institute of Physics & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Beijing Key Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Nanodevices, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2017-05-15 Revised:2017-05-25 Online:2017-08-05 Published:2017-08-05
  • Contact: Shixuan Du, Qing Huan E-mail:sxdu@iphy.ac.cn;huanq@iphy.ac.cn
  • About author:0.1088/1674-1056/26/8/

摘要:

Here we report the thermo-controllable self-assembled structures of single-layer 4, 4"-diamino-p-terphenyl (DAT) molecules on Au (110), which are investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) combined with density functional theory (DFT) based calculations. With the deposition of monolayer DAT molecules on Au (110) and subsequent annealing at 100 ℃, all DAT molecules adsorb on a (1×5) reconstructed surface with a ladder-like structure. After annealing the sample at about 200 ℃, STM images show three distinct domains, including DAT molecules on a (1×3) reconstructed surface, dehydrogenated molecules with two hydrogen atoms detached from one amino group (-2H-DAT) on a (1×5) reconstructed surface and dehydrogenated molecules with four hydrogen atoms detached from two amino groups (-4H-DAT) on a (1×3) reconstructed surface through N-Au bonds. Furthermore, after annealing the sample to 350 ℃, STM image shows only one self-assembled structure with -4H-DAT molecules on a (1×3) reconstructed surface. Relative STM simulations of different self-assembled structures show excellent agreements with the experimental STM images at different annealing temperatures. Further DFT calculations on the dehydrogenation process of DAT molecule prove that the dehydrogenation barrier on a (1×5) reconstructed surface is lower than that on (1×3) one, which demonstrate the experimental results that the formation temperature of a (1×3) reconstructed surface is higher than that of a (1×5) one.

关键词: self-assembled structures, Au (110) surface, surface reconstruction, dehydrogenation

Abstract:

Here we report the thermo-controllable self-assembled structures of single-layer 4, 4"-diamino-p-terphenyl (DAT) molecules on Au (110), which are investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) combined with density functional theory (DFT) based calculations. With the deposition of monolayer DAT molecules on Au (110) and subsequent annealing at 100 ℃, all DAT molecules adsorb on a (1×5) reconstructed surface with a ladder-like structure. After annealing the sample at about 200 ℃, STM images show three distinct domains, including DAT molecules on a (1×3) reconstructed surface, dehydrogenated molecules with two hydrogen atoms detached from one amino group (-2H-DAT) on a (1×5) reconstructed surface and dehydrogenated molecules with four hydrogen atoms detached from two amino groups (-4H-DAT) on a (1×3) reconstructed surface through N-Au bonds. Furthermore, after annealing the sample to 350 ℃, STM image shows only one self-assembled structure with -4H-DAT molecules on a (1×3) reconstructed surface. Relative STM simulations of different self-assembled structures show excellent agreements with the experimental STM images at different annealing temperatures. Further DFT calculations on the dehydrogenation process of DAT molecule prove that the dehydrogenation barrier on a (1×5) reconstructed surface is lower than that on (1×3) one, which demonstrate the experimental results that the formation temperature of a (1×3) reconstructed surface is higher than that of a (1×5) one.

Key words: self-assembled structures, Au (110) surface, surface reconstruction, dehydrogenation

中图分类号:  (Structure of clean surfaces (and surface reconstruction))

  • 68.35.B-
68.35.bm (Polymers, organics) 68.37.Ef (Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM)) 68.43.Fg (Adsorbate structure (binding sites, geometry))