AVS 51st International Symposium
    Surface Science Monday Sessions
       Session SS2-MoA

Paper SS2-MoA3
Displacement Printing of Adamantanethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers

Monday, November 15, 2004, 2:40 pm, Room 210C

Session: Assembled Monolayers
Presenter: A.A. Dameron, The Pennsylvania State University
Authors: A.A. Dameron, The Pennsylvania State University
R.K. Smith, The Pennsylvania State University
J.R. Hampton, The Pennsylvania State University
P.S. Weiss, The Pennsylvania State University
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We have fabricated 1-adamantanethiolate self assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au{111} and characterized them with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The adamantanethiolate SAMs are highly ordered and have less prominent domain boundaries than alkanethiolate SAMs, but the adamantanethiolate molecules are easily displaced by other molecules both during and after SAM formation. Taking advantage of this displacement, we have used adamantanthiolate SAMs in conjunction with microcontact printing to pattern molecules that are difficult to microcontact print by normal methods. Using STM and lateral force microscopy (LFM) we have studied the molecular order of the printed features.