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Low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy of submonolayers of PTCDA adsorbed on 2H-NbSe2 reveals an adsorbate layer that is neither commensurate with the substrate lattice nor with the charge density wave periodicity. The observed smallness of deviations from the PTCDA bulk-state unit-cell dimensions indicates that PTCDA film formation is dominated by intermolecular interactions rather than by interaction between PTCDA and 2H-NbSe2.
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Kröger, J., Jensen, H., Jürgens, T. et al. Adsorption geometry of PTCDA on 2H-NbSe2. Appl. Phys. A 81, 1285–1289 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-004-3039-6
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