• 文献标题:   Electronic Characterization of a Charge-Transfer Complex Monolayer on Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KUMAR A, BANERJEE K, ERVASTI MM, KEZILEBIEKE S, DVORAK M, RINKE P, HARJU A, LILJEROTH P
  • 作者关键词:   scanning tunneling microscopy stm, chargetransfer complex, f 4 tcnq, ttf, epitaxial graphene, charge density wave cdw
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.1c01430 EA MAY 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Organic charge-transfer complexes (CTCs) formed by strong electron acceptor and strong electron donor molecules are known to exhibit exotic effects such as superconductivity and charge density waves. We present a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (LT-STM/STS) study of a two-dimensional (2D) monolayer CTC of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and fluorinated tetracyanoquinodimethane (F(4)TCNQ), self-assembled on the surface of oxygen-intercalated epitaxial graphene on Ir(111) (G/O/Ir(111)). We confirm the formation of the charge-transfer complex by dI/dV spectroscopy and direct imaging of the singly occupied molecular orbitals. High-resolution spectroscopy reveals a gap at zero bias, suggesting the formation of a correlated ground state at low temperatures. These results point to the possibility to realize and study correlated ground states in charge-transfer complex monolayers on weakly interacting surfaces.