Department of Physics and Astronomy

We study the fundamental properties of Fullerenes (Carbon-60) and doped fullerenes. A recommended review paper on these materials is "Electronic properties of doped fullerenes, by L. Mihaly and L Forro, (Reports on Progress in Physics, 64, 649-700 (2001)). Many of our experiments are carried out at Stony Brook, and we also do measurements at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Links to past and present members of the group:

Explore the fullerenes!

• If you have a VRML viewer, see a Fullerene molecule in 3D: VRML of C₆₀
• A fullerene can encapsulate an atom, for example, a nitrogen.
• There is space between the molecules as well, where other atoms fit in. Take a virtual tour inside the various doped C₆₀ structures! ( here is a version with no VRML)
• A composite picture of several doped C₆₀ structures, up to A₁₀C₆₀. (Be patient, its a long file.)
• Here are three different views of the polymerized form of RbC₆₀: a bond model a 3D view and a full rendering. .
• MPEG movie of C₆₀ (681Kb Big!) made by the Moviemol molecular animation program.
• Nobel prize in chemistry to Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl Jr. and Richard E. Smalley for the fullerenes. Why was this discovery so important for condensed matter physics? Get the answer here.

What do we do?

• Doped C₆₀
• Sample Preparation
• Infrared Spectroscopy
  • at our Stony Brook laboratory
  • at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• A problem in our S-258 lab ...

Other WEB projects:

• A link to our other server, where the seminar schedule and some other education-related pages are located.
• The WEB pages of our book about solid state physics problems and solutions.
• Teaching a large class? Here is how to manage the grades over the WEB.
• A bunch of funny photos of demonstration experiments in an introductory physics class.
• Java-animated condensed matter physics problems.

Other sites of interest:

• Fullerene related
• Research groups in our Department
• Physics related links
• Other interesting links

• Electronic properties of doped fullerenes
  L. Mihaly and L Forro, Reports on Progress in Physics, 64, 649-700 (2001)
• Vibrational Assignment of All 46 Fundamentals of C₆₀ and C₆₀^6-: Scaled Quantum Mechanical Results Performed in Redundant Internal Coordinates and Compared to Experiments
  Cheol Ho Choi, Miklos Kertesz and Laszlo Mihaly, J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 102-112 (2000)
• Temperature and magnetic-field dependent optical spectral weight in the cation-deficient colossal-magnetoresistance material La_0.936Mn_0.982O₃
  V. Golovanov, L. Mihaly, C. O. Homes, W. H. McCarroll, K. V. Ramanujachary, and M. Greenblatt, Phys. Rev. B 59, January 1 (1999)
• Energy gap in Superconducting Fullerides: Optical and Tunneling Studies
  Daniel Koller, Michael C. Martin, Laszlo Mihaly, Gyorgy Mihaly, Gabor Oszlanyi, Gabriel Baumgartner and Laszlo Forro
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4082 (1996)
• See more papers here.

This page is maintained by Laszlo Mihaly (e-mail: laszlo.mihaly@sunysb.edu)
Last update: July, 19, 2002. Support from the National Science Foundation (DMR 98-03025) is greatfully acknowledged. Permission is hereby granted to reproduce graphs, VRML, pictures and text from these WEB pages. We ask you to send us a note by E-mail, and place an attribution like "from the fullerene WEB page at Stony Brook, http://buckminster.physics.sunysb.edu" (or something similar) to your publication.