Synthesis of Endohedral Fullerene Using ECR Ion Source

Abstract

We are developing an ECRIS apparatus which is designed for the production of endohedral fullerenes. Our promising approaches to produce the endohedral fullerenes using the ECRIS are the ion-ion collision reaction of fullerenes and the other atom in their mixture plasma and simple ion implantation of atom into fullerene layer. In this study, we tried to synthesize the endohedral nitrogen-fullerenes by ion implantation. N + beam was irradiated to a fullerene target with a specific energy and dose. As a result, we could observe the peak of N+C 60 from targets after N + beam irradiation with TOF-SIMS and LDI-TOF-MS.