Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.337, 161-164, 1999
Studies on the adsorbed states of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111) by thermal desorption spectroscopy
Desorption of octadecanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMS) on gold was investigated by thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). The TDS study shows that there exist some different adsorbed states, such as monomer and dimer, and the dimerization processes also play a very important role during the SAM formation and desorption.
Keywords:self-assembled monolayer;thermal desorption spectroscopy;oxidation;dimerization;p x root 3 striped phase