Origin of the Monochromatic Photoemission Peak in Diamondoid Monolayers
Author(s) -
William A. Clay,
Zhi Liu,
Wanli Yang,
Jason D. Fabbri,
Jeremy Dahl,
Robert M. K. Carlson,
Yun Sun,
Peter R. Schreiner,
Andrey A. Fokin,
Boryslav A. Tkachenko,
Nataliya A. Fokina,
P. Pianetta,
Nicholas A. Melosh,
ZhiXun Shen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nano letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.853
H-Index - 488
eISSN - 1530-6992
pISSN - 1530-6984
DOI - 10.1021/nl802310k
Subject(s) - diamondoid , monolayer , spectral line , monochromatic color , angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy , monte carlo method , electron , scattering , materials science , molecular physics , photoemission spectroscopy , chemistry , atomic physics , electronic structure , condensed matter physics , optics , physics , nanotechnology , quantum mechanics , statistics , organic chemistry , mathematics , astronomy , molecule
Recent photoemission experiments have discovered a highly monochromatized secondary electron peak emitted from diamondoid self-assembled monolayers on metal substrates. New experimental data and simulation results are presented to show that a combination of negative electron affinity and strong electron-phonon scattering is responsible for this behavior. The simulation results are generated using a simple Monte Carlo transport algorithm. The simulated spectra recreate the main spectral features of the measured ones.
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