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Rotation dynamics of C60 molecules in a monolayer fullerene film on the WO2/W(110) surface near the rotational phase transition

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The rotation dynamics of C60 molecules in monolayer fullerene films grown on the WO2/W(110) surface is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. The formation of molecule clusters, which have a high libron vibration amplitude, is detected near the rotational phase transition temperature. The energy parameters that determine a change in the molecule orientation, namely, the energy difference between the nearest minima of the C60 molecule energy (30 meV) as a function of the molecule orientation and the potential barrier between them (610 meV), are determined. The results are discussed in terms of the mean-field approximation.

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  1. Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432, Russia

    S. I. Bozhko & V. N. Semenov

  2. Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

    S. I. Bozhko & I. V. Shvets

  3. Astrakhan’ State University, Astrakhan’, 414056, Russia

    E. A. Levchenko

  4. State Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Rare-Metal Industry, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    M. F. Bulatov

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Original Russian Text © S.I. Bozhko, E.A. Levchenko, V.N. Semenov, M.F. Bulatov, I.V. Shvets, 2015, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2015, Vol. 147, No. 5, pp. 962–969.

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Bozhko, S.I., Levchenko, E.A., Semenov, V.N. et al. Rotation dynamics of C60 molecules in a monolayer fullerene film on the WO2/W(110) surface near the rotational phase transition. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 120, 831–837 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776115040032

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