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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 42: Poster: Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Systems and Organic Films

O 42.14: Poster

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 18:15–20:30, Poster A

Steering the growth of multiple ordered heteromolecular phases by utilizing intermolecular repulsion — Caroline Henneke, Janina Felter, F. Stefan Tautz, and •Christian Kumpf — Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) - Fundamentals of Future Information Technology

Metal-organic interfaces and their structural, electronic, spintronic and thermodynamic properties have been investigated intensively, aiming to improve and develop future electronic devices. In this context, heteromolecular phases add new design opportunities simply by combining different molecules. However, controlling the desired phases in such complex systems is a challenging task. Here, we report an effective way of steering the growth of a bimolecular system composed of adsorbate species with opposite intermolecular interactions, repulsive and attractive, respectively. The repulsive species forms a two-dimensional lattice gas, the density of which controls which crystalline phases are stable. Critical gas phase densities determine the constant-area phase diagram that describes our experimental observations, including eutectic regions with three coexisting phases. We anticipate the general validity of this type of phase diagram for binary systems containing twodimensional gas phases, and also show that the density of the gas phase allows engineering of the interface structure.