Adsorbates in a Box: Titration of Substrate Electronic States

作者:Cheng Zhihai*; Wyrick Jonathan; Luo Miaomiao; Sun Dezheng; Kim Daeho; Zhu Yeming; Lu Wenhao; Kim Kwangmoo; Einstein T L; Bartels Ludwig
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 105(6): 066104.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.066104

摘要

Nanoscale confinement of adsorbed CO molecules in an anthraquinone network on Cu(111) with a pore size of approximate to 4 nm arranges the CO molecules in a shell structure that coincides with the distribution of substrate confined electronic states. Molecules occupy the states approximately in the sequence of rising electron energy. Despite the sixfold symmetry of the pore boundary itself, the adsorbate distribution adopts the threefold symmetry of the network-substrate system, highlighting the importance of the substrate even for such quasi-free-electron systems.

  • 出版日期2010-8-6