Reconstruction of molecular orbital densities from photoemission data.

نویسندگان

  • Peter Puschnig
  • Stephen Berkebile
  • Alexander J Fleming
  • Georg Koller
  • Konstantin Emtsev
  • Thomas Seyller
  • John D Riley
  • Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl
  • Falko P Netzer
  • Michael G Ramsey
چکیده

Photoemission spectroscopy is commonly applied to study the band structure of solids by measuring the kinetic energy versus angular distribution of the photoemitted electrons. Here, we apply this experimental technique to characterize discrete orbitals of large pi-conjugated molecules. By measuring the photoemission intensity from a constant initial-state energy over a hemispherical region, we generate reciprocal space maps of the emitting orbital density. We demonstrate that the real-space electron distribution of molecular orbitals in both a crystalline pentacene film and a chemisorbed p-sexiphenyl monolayer can be obtained from a simple Fourier transform of the measurement data. The results are in good agreement with density functional calculations.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 326 5953  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009