Crystal growth of para-sexiphenyl on clean and oxygen reconstructed Cu(110) surfaces
Abstract
The formation of crystalline ) crystal plane parallel to the Cu–O substrate surface. For this orientation, the 6P molecules are stacked in layers and the molecules demonstrate only one tilt of the mean molecular plane with respect to the sample surface. On clean Cu(110), a more complex 6P(
29) plane is parallel to the substrate surface and this orientation is likely a consequence of the super-molecular long-range periodicity of the second molecular layer striped phase.