NEW ORIENTATIONALLY ORDERED LOW-TEMPERATURE SUPERSTRUCTURE IN HIGH-PURITY C60

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作者
VANTENDELOO, G [1 ]
AMELINCKX, S [1 ]
VERHEIJEN, MA [1 ]
VANLOOSDRECHT, PHM [1 ]
MEIJER, G [1 ]
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[1] CATHOLIC UNIV NIJMEGEN,MAT RES INST,6525 ED NIJMEGEN,NETHERLANDS
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1065
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Evidence is provided for a new low-temperature superstructure in pure C60; its structure can be described as face-centered cubic with a lattice parameter 2a0. The superstructure is most probably the result of rotations alternatingly over +phi-1 and -phi-2 about one of thc [111] axes of neighboring molecules along the cube directions. The experimental evidence is based on low-temperature electron diffraction.
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