Abstract
Full-hemispherical angle-scanned x-ray photoelectron diffraction has been used to investigate the molecular orientation and librational motion of molecules adsorbed on the Cu(110) surface. The molecules are found to face the substrate surface in an unusual bonding configuration, rotating their symmetry axes by a few degrees away from the high-symmetry directions of the Cu(110) substrate. Despite the asymmetric molecular orientation, the molecules are immobile, i.e., they show no librational motion, up to temperatures well above the sublimation temperature.
- Received 16 April 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.4517
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