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Morphological and Structural Investigation of Sexithiophene Growth on KCl (100).

Crystal growth & design (2013-02-16)
Günther Schwabegger, Tatjana Djuric, Helmut Sitter, Roland Resel, Clemens Simbrunner
ABSTRACT

The morphology and structure of sexithiophene deposited on KCl (100) substrates was investigated by scanning force microscopy and specular X-ray diffraction measurements. Two different needle-like structures with {010} and {4̅11} contact planes have been observed as well as islands of almost upright standing sexithiophene molecules with a {100} contact plane. Furthermore an azimuthal alignment of all three crystal orientations was observed by X-ray diffraction pole figure measurements, and the growth directions reflect the 4-fold rotational symmetry of the substrate surface. In addition the analysis of crystals with {4̅11} and {100} contact planes unveiled that they share a common crystallographic direction which is explained by ledge directed epitaxy.

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α-Sexithiophene