AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Tuesday Sessions
       Session NS2-TuM

Invited Paper NS2-TuM11
Exploring and Manipulating Fullerenes at the Single Molecule Level

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 11:20 am, Room 2020

Session: Nanoscale Manipulation and Assembly
Presenter: M.F. Crommie, University of California, Berkeley
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Fullerene molecules provide powerful building blocks for creating nanostructures with unique electronic properties. The flexible nature of these molecules arises from a combination of molecular orbital geometry, Coulomb interactions, and electron-phonon coupling. We have used scanning tunneling microscopy to examine and manipulate these factors in order to explore fullerene molecules in different physical regimes. We find that it is possible to reversibly change the charge and magnetic state of individual C60 molecules through single-atom doping, and we have spatially mapped electron-phonon interaction strengths over the surface of single fullerene molecules. When fullerenes are packed into 2-dimensional surface assemblies we find that molecular electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions combine to create novel long-range order.