Microcontroller design for solution-phase molecular deposition in vacuum via a pulsed-solenoid valve

M Wolf, V Hayes, CR Gerber, PG Quardokus… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A microcontroller was used to operate a pulsed-solenoid valve connected directly to a
vacuum chamber (⁠ 10− 8 mbar⁠) to deposit microliters of solution resulting in monolayer …

Effect of alkyl chain-length on dissociative attachment: 1-bromoalkanes on Si (100)-c (4× 2)

M Ebrahimi, SY Guo, K Huang, T Lim… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Chemical reactivity as a function of chain-length was investigated for three 1-bromoalkanes
on silicon. The physisorption and subsequent thermal dissociative attachment of …

Adsorbate alignment in surface halogenation: standing up is better than lying down

K Huang, IR McNab, JC Polanyi, J Yang - Angewandte Chemie, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Almost half a century ago, it was demonstrated that an aligned gaseous reagent molecule
had a reactivity for abstractive halogen-atom transfer that depended on the direction of …

Controlled injection of a liquid into ultra-high vacuum: Submonolayers of adenosine triphosphate deposited on Cu (110)

JM Sobrado, JA Martín-Gago - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We have combined a fast-valve device with vacuum technology for implementing a new
method that allows introducing liquid solutions in an ultra-high vacuum chamber in the form …

[BOOK][B] Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of organometallic molecules on Au (111): Mixed valence states and quasicrystalline ordering

NA Wasio - 2014 - search.proquest.com
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to study large, organometallic complexes with
multiple metal centers. These complexes are capable of forming stable mixed-valence (MV) …