Direct imaging by atomic force microscopy of surface-localized self-assembled monolayers on a cuprate superconductor and surface X-ray scattering analysis of analogous monolayers on the surface of water

Autor: K. Kjaer, Torben R. Jensen, David Derro, Niels Reitzel, Steen B. Schougaard, John T. McDevitt, T. Randall Lee, Jae Hyuk Choi, Ramon Colorado, Alejandro L De Lozanne, John T. Markert, Olga E. Shmakova, Thomas Bjørnholm
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Thin Solid Films. 515:8424-8429
ISSN: 0040-6090
Popis: A self-assembled monolayer of CF 3 (CF 2 ) 3 (CH 2 ) 11 NH 2 atop the (001) surface of the high-temperature superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x was imaged by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The AFM images provide direct 2D-structural evidence for the epitaxial 5.5 A square √2 × √2R45° unit cell previously predicted for alkyl amines by molecular modeling [J.E. Ritchie, C.A. Wells, J.-P. Zhou, J. Zhao, J.T. McDevitt, C.R. Ankrum, L. Jean, D.R. Kanis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998) 2733]. Additionally, the 3D structure of an analogous Langmuir monolayer of CF 3 (CF 2 ) 9 (CH 2 ) 11 NH 2 on water was studied by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and specular X-ray reflectivity. Structural differences and similarities between the water-supported and superconductor-localized monolayers are discussed.
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