AVS 56th International Symposium & Exhibition
    Surface Science Thursday Sessions
       Session SS-ThP

Paper SS-ThP9
Iron Phthalocyanine on the Ag(111) Surface: Structure and Electronic States

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 6:00 pm, Room Hall 3

Session: Surface Science Poster Session
Presenter: K.W. Hipps, Washington State University
Authors: K.W. Hipps, Washington State University
T. Takami, Washington State University
C.E. Carrizales, Washington State University
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Epitaxial growth of iron phthalocyanine on a silver (111) surface has been studied with scanning tunneling microscopy in ultrahigh vacuum. Commensurate two-dimensional ordering with parallelogram unit vectors (b1, b2) where b1 = 5a1 + 2a2 and b2 = 5a2, where a1 and a2 are unit vectors of Ag(111) surface, were observed. The parallelogram structure was more commensurate than those of FePc on Au(111) or graphite and of CuPc on Ag(111), and the surface density is greatest on Ag(111). The orbital mediated tunneling spectra showed a first ionization potential at 5.1 eV, similar to that in cobalt phthalocyanine on Au(111) surface.