In situ FT-IR study of an electron-beam induced reaction of C60 film

The structural modification induced by electron-beam (EB) in a C-60 film and its kinetics have been studied using in situ high-resolution FT-IR spectroscopy. Similar to studies on photoirradiated KxC60 film, it was found that a coalescence reaction between adjacent C-60 molecules takes place, In order to investigate the interaction between an incident electron and C-60 molecules, the time-dependence of the amounts of C-60 On the EB irradiation was examined. It was found that the reaction rate exhibits a linear dependence on the reactant concentration and nonlinear dependence on the incident current.