Organic Molecular Beam Deposition of Perylene

The second planar aromatic hydrocarbon for which a more extensive investigation of adlayers fabricated by OMBD has been earned out is perylene. Especially the deposition on Cu(llO) substrates is of particular interest sinee this low symmetry surface may provide a useful template whieh rules out the formation of rotational domains in the initial stage of growth (as found for the case of pentacene on this substrate [52]). 

Detailed measiuements using a number of different teehniques revealed that the subsequent multilayer growth on top of the reaehed eopper stmeture substrate is aeeompanied by a pronouneed dewetting leading to the formation of tall 3D islands with a bulk-like stmeture on top of the ehemisorbed wetting layer [61]. 

11 Molecular Beam Deposition anti Characterisation of Thin Organic Films 

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G. Witte, and C. Woll, Organic molecular beam-deposition of perylene on Cu(l 10) Results from near-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy, J. Mater. Res. 19(7), 2049-2056 (2004). 

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