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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-6-5
pubmed:abstractText
We use a seeded supersonic molecular beam to control the kinetic energy of pentacene (C22H14) during deposition and growth on Ag(111). Highly ordered thin films are grown at low substrate temperatures (approximately 200 K) at kinetic energies of a few electron volts, as shown by low energy He diffraction and x-ray reflectivity spectra. In contrast, deposition of thermal molecules yields only amorphous films. Growth at room or higher temperature substrates yields films of poorer quality irrespective of the depositing beam energy. We find that after the first wetting layer is completed, a new ordered phase is formed, whose in-plane lattice spacings match one of the bulk crystal planes. The high quality of the films can be interpreted as the result of local annealing induced by the impact of the impinging high-energy molecules.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0031-9007
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
90
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
206101
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Hyperthermal molecular beam deposition of highly ordered organic thin films.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article