Cc. Perry et al., Complementary vibrational and reflectance anisotropy spectroscopic determination of molecular azimuthal orientation, SURF SCI, 428, 1999, pp. 446-451
Azimuthal orientations of 9-anthracene carboxylate (9-AC) on clean and p(2
x 1)O/Cu(110) surfaces were determined from a reflectance anisotropy spectr
oscopy (RAS) signal derived from an intramolecular electronic transition, T
he magnitude of the molecular signal on the p(2 x 1)O/Cu(110) surface is 4-
5 times larger than on the clean surface, We present a complete vibrational
assignment of adsorbed 9-AC based on Fourier transform infrared and on- an
d off-specular high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) a
nd ab initio calculations. Correlation of the off-specular HREELS on p(2 x
1)O/Cu(110) with the RAS results demonstrates that the magnitude of the RAS
signal depends on the degree of azimuthal orientation. (C) 1999 Elsevier S
cience B.V. All rights reserved.