A very mild method was
develo
ped for the atta
chment of high-quality organi
c monolayers on
crystalline sili
con surfa
ces. By using visible light sour
ces, from 447 to 658 nm, a variety of 1-alkenes and1-alkynes were atta
ched to hydrogen-terminated Si(100) and Si(111) surfa
ces at room tem
perature. The
presen
ce and the quality of the monolayers were evaluated by stati
c water
conta
ct angles, X-ray
photoele
ctron s
pe
ctros
co
py, and IR s
pe
ctros
co
py. Monolayers
pre
pared by thermal, UV light, or visiblelight initiation were
com
pared. Additionally, the ability of infrared refle
ction-absor
ption s
pe
ctros
co
py tostudy organi
c monolayers on sili
con was ex
plored. A rea
ction me
chanism is dis
cussed on the basis ofinvestigations of the rea
ction behavior of 1-alkenes with sili
con wafers with varying ty
pes and levels ofdo
ping. Finally, a series of mixed monolayers
derived from the mixed solutions of a 1-alkene and an
chars/omega.gif" BORDER=0 >-fluoro-1-alkene were investigated to reveal that the
com
position of the mixed monolayers was dire
ctly
pro
portionalto the molar ratio of the two
com
pounds in the solutions.