Metal organic interface

Electronic and optoelectronic devices based on organic semiconductors have become a topic of intense multidisciplinary research. Entangled electronic and structural properties of organic molecules on surfaces require a sophisticated double approach, both experimental and theoretical. The X-ray standing wave technique allows an in-depth understanding of charge transfer on the surface.

An organic molecule on Cu(111); calculated geometry (top); experimentally observed charge rearrangements - electrons are shifted from the blue to the red areas (bottom). (Image credit: L. Romaner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256801 (2007).)

Further information:

• Working out the fundamental processes at metal-organic interfaces
  
• Ref.: L. Romaner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256801 (2007).