Topic: Development of Nanotechnoly and Nanomaterials at ISM-CNR

Outlines:

Strucural investigation: Self-organization Strucural investigation: Self-organization

The Alaninol molecules forms almost squared tetrameric units that self-organizes chirally on the Cu(100) surface up to reach full monolayer coverage at RT.

The chiral phase appears (LEED & Surf. XRD) as soon as small molecular aggregate are formed; small aggregate consists of four molecules (STM).

ARPES with circular polarized SR gives a fingerprint of the chirality of the electronic states of the system.

Synchrotron Radiation Photoelectron Spectroscopy  Synchrotron Radiation Photoelectron Spectroscopy 

Chiral unit mesh dimension: 10.5x10.5 .

SR Surface X-ray diffraction

STM

Paola Gori, Giorgio Contini, Tommaso Prosperi, Daniele Catone, Stefano Turchini, Nicola Zema and Amedeo Palma, J. Phys. Chem. B, 112, 3963 (2008).

P. Gori, G. Contini, T. Prosperi, F. Ronci, S. Colonna, N. Zema, S. Turchini, D. Catone, A. Cricenti and A. Palma, Superlattices and Microstructures, 46, 5258 (2009).

Collaborators F. Ronci, S. Colonna, M. Girasole, G. Longo, P. Gori, G. Contini, N. Zema, S. Turchini, D. Catone, T. Prosperi, M. Luce, M. Rinaldi, M. Ortenzi Istituto di Stuttura della Materia, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy A.Palma CNR ISMN, Rome, Italy G. Margaritondo,  Institut de physique appliquée, Ecole Polytecnique Fédérale, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland P. Thielen, D. Talley, J. S. Sanghera, I. D. Aggarwal Optical Sciences Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave SE, Washington, DC 20375, USA N. H. Tolk Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 31235 USA A. Congiu-Castellano, Dip. Fisica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy G.LeLay CNRS, UNI Marseille, France 

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