Carbon superatom thin films

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1996-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9611030v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

13 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures available as black and white PostScript files; color PostScript and/or gif files available upon re

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4442

Assembling clusters on surfaces has emerged as a novel way to grow thin films with targeted properties. In particular, it has been proposed from experimental findings that fullerenes deposited on surfaces could give rise to thin films retaining the bonding properties of the incident clusters. However the microscopic structure of such films is still unclear. By performing quantum molecular dynamics simulations, we show that C_28 fullerenes can be deposited on a surface to form a thin film of nearly defect free molecules, which act as carbon superatoms. Our findings help clarify the structure of disordered small fullerene films and also support the recently proposed hyperdiamond model for solid C_28.

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