TY - JOUR
T1 - Fabrication of fullerene nanoring on an oxidized HOPG surface
AU - Matsumoto, Naohiro
AU - Kinoshita, Hiroshi
AU - Ohmae, Nobuo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - Fabrication of fullerene C60 nanorings on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) was carried out by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Morphological characteristics of C60 were investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM). An oxidized HOPG, on which circular etch-pits were formed, was used as the template for the fabrication of fullerene nanorings. Evaporated C60 molecules were selectively adsorbed on the etch-pits edges where the pre-deposited Au islands existed. The diameter of the etch-pits for nanoring template was controlled simply by the oxidation temperature of HOPG.
AB - Fabrication of fullerene C60 nanorings on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) was carried out by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Morphological characteristics of C60 were investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM). An oxidized HOPG, on which circular etch-pits were formed, was used as the template for the fabrication of fullerene nanorings. Evaporated C60 molecules were selectively adsorbed on the etch-pits edges where the pre-deposited Au islands existed. The diameter of the etch-pits for nanoring template was controlled simply by the oxidation temperature of HOPG.
KW - Fullerenes
KW - Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
KW - Scanning probe techniques
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U2 - 10.1016/j.diamond.2008.10.044
DO - 10.1016/j.diamond.2008.10.044
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:59649105644
SN - 0925-9635
VL - 18
SP - 399
EP - 402
JO - Diamond and Related Materials
JF - Diamond and Related Materials
IS - 2-3
ER -