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- Title
Light Emission from M-Type Enantiomer of 2,13-bis(hydroxymethyl)[7]-thiaheterohelicene Molecules Adsorbed on Au(111) and C 60 /Au(111) Surfaces Investigated by STM-LE.
- Authors
Krukowski, Paweł; Hattori, Takuma; Akai-Kasaya, Megumi; Saito, Akira; Osuga, Hideji; Kuwahara, Yuji
- Abstract
Light emission from the M-type enantiomer of a helicene derivative (2,13-bis(hydroxymethyl)[7]-thiaheterohelicene) adsorbed on the clean Au(111) and the C60-covered Au(111) surfaces were investigated by tunneling-current-induced light-emission technique. Plasmon-originated light emission was observed on the helicence/Au(111) surface and it was strongly suppressed on the area where the helicene molecules were adsorbed at the edges of the Au(111) terraces. To avoid luminescence quenching of excited helicene molecules and to suppress strong plasmon light emission from the Au(111) surface, C60 layers were used as decoupling buffer layers between helicene molecules and the Au(111) surface. Helicene molecules were adsorbed preferentially on the Au(111) surface rather than on the C60 buffer layers due to the small interaction of the molecules and C60 islands. This fact motivated us to deposit a multilayer of helicene molecules onto the C60 layers grown on the Au(111) surface, leading to the fact that the helicene/C60 multilayer showed strong luminescence with the molecules character. We consider that such strong light emission from the multilayer of helicene molecules has a plasmon origin strongly modulated by the molecular electronic states of (M)-[7]TH-diol molecules.
- Subjects
ENANTIOMERS; LUMINESCENCE quenching; HYDROXYMETHYL compounds; BUFFER layers; MOLECULES; SMALL molecules
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 23, p15399
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms232315399