ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE STUDIES OF THE C60 FILM CONDENSED ON 2H-MoS2(0001) SURFACE

The electronic structure and vibrational spectrum of the C₆₀ film condensed on a 2H- MoS₂(0001) surface have been investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ul-traviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and infrared high-resolution electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (HREELS). AES analysis showed that at low energy side of the main transition, C₆₀ contains a total of three peaks just like that of graphite. However, the energy position of the KLL main Auger transition of C₆₀ looks like that of diamond, indicating that the hybridization of the carbon atoms in C₆₀ is not strictly in sp²- bonded state but that the curvature of the molecular surface introduces some sp²pz- bonded character into the molecular orbitals. XPS showed that the C 1s binding energy in C₆₀ was 285.0eV, and its main line was very symmetric and offered no indication of more than a single carbon species. In UPS measurement the valence band spectrum of C₆₀ within 10eV below the Fermi level (E_F) shows a very distinct five-band structure that character-izes the electronic structure of the C₆₀ molecule. HREEL results showed that the spectrum obtained from the C₆₀ film has very rich vibrational structure. At least, four distinct main loss peaks can be identified below 200 meV. The most intense loss was recorded at 66 meV, and relatively less intense losses were recorded at 95, 164 and 197meV at a primary energy of electron beam E_P = 2.0eV. The other energy-loss peaks at 46, 136, 157 and 186meV in HREEL spectrum are rather weak. These results have been compared to infrared spectrum data of the crystalline solid C₆₀ taken from recent literatures.