Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Multi-orbital charge transfer at highly oriented organic/metal interfaces

  • Giovanni Zamborlini,
  • Daniel Lüftner,
  • Zhijing Feng,
  • Bernd Kollmann,
  • Peter Puschnig,
  • Carlo Dri,
  • Mirko Panighel,
  • Giovanni Di Santo,
  • Andrea Goldoni,
  • Giovanni Comelli,
  • Matteo Jugovac,
  • Vitaliy Feyer,
  • Claus Michael Schneider

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00402-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Charge transfer at molecule-metal interfaces affects the overall physical and magnetic properties of organic-based devices, and ultimately their performance. Here, the authors report evidence of a pronounced charge transfer involving nickel tetraphenyl porphyrin molecules adsorbed on copper.