INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF C-60 FULLERENE MOLECULES AS REVEALED BY LOW-TEMPERATURE STM

Authors
GAISCH R BERNDT R GIMZEWSKI JK REIHL B SCHLITTLER RR SCHNEIDER WD TSCHUDY M
Citation
R. Gaisch et al., INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF C-60 FULLERENE MOLECULES AS REVEALED BY LOW-TEMPERATURE STM, Applied physics. A, Solids and surfaces, 57(2), 1993, pp. 207-210
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics. A, Solids and surfaces → ACNP
ISSN journal
07217250
Volume
57
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
207 - 210
Database
ISI
SICI code
0721-7250(1993)57:2<207:ISOCFM>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We have performed Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) in ultra-high va cuum at low temperatures (5 and 50K) of unordered and ordered C60 laye rs adsorbed on a Au(110) surface. STM topographs of the frozen C60 mol ecules reveal four symmetric patterns within single molecules, which m ay be associated with different orientations of the fullerenes on a hi ghly corrugated gold substrate.