Abstract
The properties of thin organic films offer many challenging opportunities for science and technology. A crucial requirement for the advancement of molecular film technology is the selective characterization and modification on an atomic level. Local proximal probes like Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) or Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) bear certainly the potential for this purpose. So far, however, mainly adsorbed organic molecules lying flat on a smooth substrate have been imaged with near atomic resolution. Here, we demonstrate the ability of STM to selectively image self-assembled monolayers of long-chain molecules (hexanethiol) oriented upright on the substrate Au(111) with molecular resolution. Upon proper choice of the tunneling parameters we can image the molecular head-group anchored at the substrate and/or the molecular tail group.
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