Variations of vibronic states in densely-packed structures of molecules with intramolecular dipoles
Abstract
Electrostatic potentials strongly affect molecular energy levels and charge states, providing the fascinating opportunity of molecular gating. Their influence on molecular vibrations remains less explored. Here, we investigate Ethyl-Diaminodicyanoquinone molecules on a monolayer of MoS on Au(111) using scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy. These molecules exhibit a large dipole moment in gas phase, which we find to (partially) persist on the MoS monolayer. The self-assembled structures consist of chains, where the dipoles of neighboring molecules are aligned anti-parallel. Thanks to the decoupling efficiency of the molecular states from the metal by the MoS interlayer, we resolve vibronic states of the molecules, which vary in intensity depending on the molecular surrounding. We suggest that the vibrations are strongly damped by electrostatic interactions with the environment.
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@article{arxiv.2302.07816,
title = {Variations of vibronic states in densely-packed structures of molecules with intramolecular dipoles},
author = {Sergey Trishin and Christian Lotze and Johanna Richter and Gael Reecht and Nils Krane and Philipp Rietsch and Siegfried Eigler and Katharina J. Franke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07816},
year = {2023}
}